The April Post?

I missed my April post! Haha, I've been busy. And I'm gonna be even busier the next few weeks. The pain of it all. Okay, somehow or another I became the president of MCAC. Reality never did hit me, but let me say, I was starting to feel sick after I won the election. I guess everyone's "I'm expecting stuff from you", or the "Don't screw up or I'm gonna kill you" or "Try to at least get close to what the previous committee did" sort of messages affected my mentality to some extent. See, at least I didn't get to like how I was in February this year, you know with the whole 'not eating for 4 days' thing. That would of sucked (I hated how everything tasted like shit to me that time, so I couldn't eat a thing). My saving grace was that Yi Xin became Secretary with me so she can understand what is running through my head even if no one else can. Librarian's still Drue, Sam's my VP and James is my treasurer. This year's committee, 3 white guys, Yi Xin and me. LOL.

Besides that, I have not done much. I spent most of my time either with my housemates group or MCAC people. I still do go to GFN though that is rather minimal now in how it affects me. Rather sadly I must say. MCAC we uhh.... did go to laser wars. And that took a lot of work on my part as I had to like make a book thingy for Vu and the presentation for the old committee in limited time. Laser wars itself was fun but I REALLY SUCK AT IT. And 6 hours was long. And it was in the middle of the night, I was exhausted even before laser wars started. So I sort of didn't even want to go. I did enjoy it though. I won't even mention a certain committee meeting we had to do during laser wars which was like the most retarded thing anyone could do for a first meeting but I needed a damn motion for something... bleh. T.T

Oh yeah, I went to Animania also. With umm... Lee, Tommy, Naz, Chris... uhh.. who else. @.@ And I saw Din there again! He's looking... like himself as usual. I only go to talk to him for like 5 minutes though. We were still going on about height even then. Heh. After Animania our group met up with Raine-sama and we want to K-Box. I've never actually tried karaoke first to be honest. I always just watched. So it was... a weird experience. I didn't even want to sing at first either but I got pulled into it eventually when Chris was like looking for songs for me or something. Alex, Bernie and Drue randomly came in later and I think we had like Indian dinner or something. I shared my food with Naz.

Oh yeah, and we had a sleepover at Bernie's. See, I wanted a girls sleepover, but in the end we had more guys and it turned into some drinking party. Only me and Yi Xin didn't drink in the end. T.T I hardly slept also, what with damn James kicking at me and then Raine decided to sleep in between us but she sort of kicked me also I think... and then laser wars was straight after that at night. @.@

I would say more but I don't know what to say. This is why I used to do daily entries. I forget what I do within two days if I don't write it down somewhere. Let's just say I'm gonna have a pretty hard next few weeks coming up. My placements start tomorrow also. I'll be going to Mount Waverly Secondary College. By myself, as my 'partner' has like the opposite timetable from me and we won't see each other that often.

The March Post!

Nooo! I have like less then a day before it's no longer March anymore. Let's make the March post, quick! Haha. Okay, I sort of dropped the blog thing since I'm too busy now. Which is a shame since I liked what I did before, I sort of want to keep doing it (it will be fun to read in the future). What have I done in the past month? Well, a lot of things. Mostly MCAC of course. I've joined the Wu Shu club, so my training in that is fun, painful at times but fun. And when I say painful I don't mean physical pain, Wu Shu taught at Monash has no actual sparring so no one is gonna floor me (thankfully) just that I'm unfit and inflexible so you know, telling me to stretch that much, kick that high or do 400 kicks continuously is bound to take its toll on me.

As for MCAC, we've had our opening BBQ. Was a success although I was really busy for that, I helped with registration and did the actual BBQ then. Our Easter Marathon, I helped prepare food when I got there early, helped registration a bit and just sat around since I wasn't really interested in watching whatever. We had DDR at Bernie's, which wasn't really much of a DDR party but more like... random games (and Guitar Hero). Went to Supanova yesterday! It wasn't that good, it was a pretty bad con actually, but the people I was with was fun (MCAC people of course, we've had a lot of new active members so our group has expanded quite a bit). Had a load of trouble getting home from Supanova. The city loop was done, had to change trains in Richmond, missed the train, waited half an hour. The next train went to the wrong platform, and once again we went running. Then I stayed in Bernie's house for a bit before she drove us back.

AGM for MCAC is coming up in week 8. I'm currently running for VP but I've had a few requests from people to run for prez, which I'm still thinking about. I'll have to talk to Vu about that since being prez of MCAC.... was NOT something I would of expected from the likes of me last year! I mean, I was this emo loner last year... and now I might be prez or VP? It's like... so different now. Haha. I am different I guess?

I changed to contacts a few weeks ago. So I've dropped my glasses. I just wear em' at home now (or when I'm too lazy to put the contacts on). They were EXPENSIVE! I hope I can buy em' cheaper in Brunei once the current ones expire.

I went to the beach for some MUISS trip a few weeks back (March the 1st I think). Then when I came back I got a rather big surprise. Everyone disappeared except for Jia Chee in the house, and like, when it was dinner... I was lured to Yi Xin's room and they all yelled surprise! Well it was the usual bunch in my house with Brian and Tsan. I was like... uhh... D: D: D: *walks away*. I was really tired from the beach trip so my mind was kind of blank. Anyway they decided to host a super belated birthday party for me, Sharon cooked pasta, Yi Xin made salad and garlic bread, Jia Chee cooked onion soup and they had a lovely cake and everything! It was really weird, I've never had friends do stuff for my birthday for me. They gave me this nice box that was decorated by Jia Chee and they all wrote comments on it. They then printed pictures of us and stuck it into the interior of the box. With a necklace inside. It's so awesome. *_*

I've always wondered whats it like for friends to host a small party for you. Hehe, now I know. I always thought I would cry (last year I would of, in my loner days). Guess this year I didn't just cause I'm happy with daily life as it is, I don't feel depressed or lonely anymore. I'm happy I ended up living with Yi Xin, Jia Chee, Sharon and Stan (okay he doesn't live there but he's always there LOL). And with MCAC expanding I guess I don't have to worry about losing friends and the group shrinking in size. I mean our lunches are huge now. All these new first years. O.O

My work isn't going too well, so I must try harder in that. We spent most of Easter just studying. And eating chocolate bunnies. I bought 5 bunnies to represent each person, lol. So far, everyone has been eaten cept for me and Yi Xin.

Right I should mention that I met Din at Supanova yesterday with his friend from JIS. Umm... Din sounds different now. O.O I haven't met him in... years. LOL. So I was like O.o on the phone. And he's taller, hair is long. He reminded me of a kid during high school, haha it seems he isn't anymore. I wonder what it would be like to meet other ex-ISB people I haven't seen since year 11. Seems like such a long time ago... I wonder if they would recognize me if I walked in front of them?

I might post weekly now. Let's see how things go!

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~).

The Trip back Home.

And I still live! I made it home safely. LOL. I was just too lazy to post. Yeah, karaoke on the 17th was good. Umm.. Chris sang the most hilarious and befitting song for his personality. Sharon was excellent (Konayuki is such a beautiful song). Nat was way cute. Moo-chan... surprised everyone. It was good fun but as expected, not everyone could take in his eccentricities properly. Well, can't expect most people to be accepting. Vu was damn hilarious. His song was made up of nothing but peaches, and then David walked in, saw Vu singing his lungs off... sort of walked out and came back again and did a quick prayer. I was laughing my head off. I took videos of most of my friends at the karaoke. Incomplete videos since I didn't have the memory. There was lots of nice and yummy food at the karaoke, I ate so much I got full from it even though it was just finger food. And pizza! Unfortunately, me, Amanda and Jia Chee had to leave early... so yeah, in the midst of a song sung by Drue and Max (Caulfield one) we slipped away, said some quick goodbyes, gave a hug to Chris and Drue (who was at the front singing ROFL) and ran off. Outside, we ran into Raine and her sister lost so I said bye to her and pointed her to the right direction.

Back at Farrer... it was.. dark, quiet, lonely and the atmosphere was pretty weak. Seems none of us was really that happy. We had some of Sharon (MUISS one, not the Sharon mentioned before) cake. Um... yeah. Eventually Amanda's cousin came. So gave some hugs, said bye to Jonathan whom I will not be seeing next year. On the way to the airport, I sent a mass SMS to everyone from MCAC, saying "See you next year :D <3". It was hilarious, cause everyone at MCAC was eating dinner together after the karaoke, so everyone's phones went off one by one recieving my SMS. Everyone sent a reply one by one also. LOL. Amanda then proceeded to do the same. Then I phoned Bernie and stuff.

The airport was a nightmare. See, normally when it comes to flights, I'M THE FIRST PERSON TO CHECK IN. I'm a really early and strict person. Cause I take after my parents, who are strict with time. Now, here I was.. late. And the line was huge. By the time I managed to check in (I was like at the end of the line and the 4th last to check in), it was 1 hour before the flight. I was told to immediately head to the boarding room. So much for talking to Amanda at the airport, ROFL. So I said some quick goodbyes, went through customs and sat for like 5 minutes before boarding the plane.

Plane was a nightmare. It was cold (thankfully not hot and stuffy) but I couldn't sleep. I was sitting next to a girl from MUISS I think (I feel like I've seen her somewhere...) but we didn't talk at all, since she might have been just a stranger. I was tired, but I couldn't sleep. Watched High School Musical 2, which sucked. Watched a bit of Stardust. The food.. was weird. Had either a choice of quiche or fried rice. I went for the quiche but they gave so little of it. It was like a big container, and BAM. The quiche takes up like less then half of it. T.T

Singapore was a nightmare. I was reallly tired now, it was early morning. I wanted to sleep but I wanted to protect my bags and if I fell asleep I might not wake up until god knows when and might potentially miss my flight. So that was out of the question. So I just sat blankly, read a bit of my novel, bought 2 cookies and ate them. Before boarding my flight. The second flight was boring, but luckily it was only 2 hours so that passed by rather fast. And then finally I got home. It was funny, I got through customs so quickly. And luggage, my bag came right away. I think I got off the plane and to my parents in like 5 minutes. ROFL.

Anyway, home is the same. Life for me has resumed quietly like it was before I went to Australia. I feel like a hikkimori again. Normally I would play something at home with my bro's GF, but she's studying for exams right now. As for friends, I would normally only bother to go and see Liz or Manju (as Mag has left) but I dunno where Manju is and Liz is doing exams right now. I'm just waiting until exams are finished, then at least I have a friend... sort of person (well future sister-in-law) to play with and talk to. XD

Messy

I love how messy my room is right now there is like a BARRICADE between two parts of the small room. I have to climb over my bed now to get to my mirror and wardrobe. LOL. I'm supposed to be packing. But bleh, I hate packing. I even turned down an invite from Steven to go to the city with him and Zati. Boo boo boo. I was going to watch a movie with Alex, Bernie and whoever else is coming though, tonight that is. And maybe dinner. But that hasn't really been arranged properly.

Must get most of the packing done today. Eeeeeeh. Yesterday, Alex brought over more boxes. So that solved my problem of looking for more for Amanda. Alex is a life saver. LOL. I think I'm doing something tomorrow with Amanda and co. (she finishes her exam tomorrow finally!!) but I dunno what. LOL. Thursday is moving out day, Friday is e-games. Saturday is a bit of relaxing at Farrer, then MCAC Karaoke gathering (glad I'm not missing it, it's a big gathering, EVERYONE will be there for once...) then home home home! I shall spend Sunday in the comforts of my home. With my big bed. <3 <3

Laziness

I wanted to do a big post and stuff to say what I've been doing for the past few weeks. But I'm so lazy now. Okay, it was exams but I went out a lot despite that. Actually I might have went out even more. Bernie, Drue, Chris and co. seem to enjoy going out when it's like crunch time. But I get pulled along with the insanity. Currently waiting for Drue to pick me up from the Halls, going out for dinner... well it's almost 10 PM so I wouldn't say it's dinner anymore, LOL.

Was out entire day yesterday with Bernie, Alex, Tali, Drue, Max, Moo-chan with surprise visits from Raine and Chris. Umm... yeah. My final week of my first year in Australia will be pretty busy. Today was a calm day, and so will tomorrow (packing day tomorrow). But after that, I think my schedule will be full? And there are some people I should really go see before I leave... aaah... I dunno....

Still alive!

I'm still alive! Studying for ENH1990 exam. Will not blog until that is done. I was upset yesterday sniffing in my unhappy corner cause I got a 51% on my 35% ENH1990 major essay. OMFG. LOWEST SCORE EVER. I was really shocked. And upset. I immediately ran to buy a chocolate muffin from The Den, lol. Luckily when I went to collect my essay, a classmate Skye was there so she was attempting to calm me down as I slowly threw a small fit after seeing my score.

I need to get used to the fact that my grades aren't gonna be good if I slack off and attempt to enjoy life instead rather then sitting in my lonesome doing essays like semester one. But I haven't had bad grades since... year 7. But yeah, I will learn that passing is good enough (getting above 50%). Anything else doesn't matter since I don't have a scholarship and I probably won't do honours (even if I had the grades for it I should work once I finish these 4 years, not waste another year).

Although I'll be busy once the exams are over moving out and stuff (luckily Alex has volunteered to help me move out, giving me boxes, the use of his car and manpower LOL). And bunch of MCAC activities before I run home, some random outing / celebration for early exam finishers on the 10th (going to DFO for fun and doing something at night, I hope we don't party all night LOL). And I know we're gonna go to the E-games expo (and Raine, Moo-chan and others wanna go to the Sexpo running at the same day at the same place... and want to drag me in with them. I don't mind going but I don't wanna pay $22 to go to a convention about sex lol) annnd karaoke (the real end of exam celebration MCAC style) joint with Caulfield people. I'll miss the after party / pub crawl though since I'm going home on the same day. T.T

The past week in a nutshell....

Yay, finished typing everything. This was a lot of work, HAHAHAHA. I am SOOO OBVIOUSLY NOT STUDYING! I shall be resuming my daily posts now that I've gotten this chunk of the text out of the way (the reason I couldn't make any new posts).

Last Monday
Monday I didn't do much, I finished assignment, went to uni to hand it in and spend the remainder of the afternoon sitting with Drue, Nat, Chris, Sharon, Raine and co. by our Karaoke promotion stall then they moved to the cellar room. Of course, that was when the GFN volunteers appreciation party was held at, so I went for that straight after. MCAC was still around during the party, I felt kind of bad how they couldn't join in with anything. Then everyone went to Bernie's place because... the.. costumes for Vu and Drue had arrived. I wanted to go but I wanted to stay for GFN also, lol.

GFN was fun. We had a KFC dinner, I got a certificate where my name was printed wrong so that went out the window. Will get another one another day I think. But I didn't get one in the end. Oh well? Maybe I can ask for 2 next year, LOL. Umm... at GFN we played weird games like blow out... where you .. sit in a circle, say blow whatever crap and basically whoever is in the circle has to say something like "everyone wearing jeans" and everyone wearing jeans has to find another seat in the circle. Can't find one, you're in the middle. 3 times in the centre and you have a penalty. Only Mitze got a penalty in the end which was to propose to someone. She proposed to Amanda, lol.

Now much else happened. Everyone seemed to like my cake, although I wish I did thrown chocolate sauce all over it. It was too strong. Destroyed the taste. Mitze drew a flower on my hand, which is gone now sadly but it was really pretty. Eventually, V drove us back to the Halls.

Went over to study at Farrer for the night for a short while. I also met Chris again! Chris from the first semester, an old friend from Roberts. Not MCAC Chris. He had to leave Australia for a bit, and now he came back living at Farrer Lords. We went over to Rachel's room, dragged her out and had a good chat.

Last Tuesday
I was supposed to JUST study for my exam on thursday. I was expecting Tuesday to be a nice and calm day. But noooo! It didn't turn out that way. Obviously it's my own fault. I went to uni to get a pancake (finally I got one) and I bought a muffin to eat also. Then I went back to study. At around 12 past Chris sent me a message on MCAC forum asking whether I wanted to join the group as we go to Chaddy to buy Drue a uhh... *coughs*. So I said yes cause I wanted to go and help Drue pick a *coughs*. So yeah, at past 1 Chris gave me a call and Drue drove me to Chaddy.
The uhh... experience was rather interesting. I was really embarassed you know. Then we went EVERYWHERE looking for lace so that Lee could sew it onto Vu's costume for Wednesday. Since it was too short. We went everywhere, Kmart, The Reject Shop, Target, etc. Couldn't find it. No, Chaddy has no Lincraft. Anyway we went to Coles at the end, Nat bought some cake-making stuff and uhh... Bernie had a lot of veggie patties for Wednesday's BBQ, LOL. After, Nat wanted to have ANOTHER DDR time at Bernie's place. I wanted to go home. By this time Drue had left for his Maccas interview so if Chris went to Bernie's I would have no ride home. Boo boo. But yeah, Chris hesitated but eventually he decided to drive me back. Heh. And in the end didn't return to Bernie's place.

I made cake at night. For tomorrow. Yay, Celine doesn't study! Oh and I made dinner too. During the time when I made cake a random girl and her mom came in and asked me stuff. Oh and guess what? It was PASTA NIGHT AT ROBERTS. OMG. I was like... SHIT! NOOOOES~ my free food. MY FREE NICE FOOD! So yeah, I had already ate dinner by the time I realised it was pasta night and it was announced. Bleh. Didn't bother to go in the end.

Last Wednesday
MCAC end of year BBQ! Heh, it was an awesome day. I went to uni at around 11 AM to keep Drue and Raine company at the promotion stall (outside STA travel). Raine was studying and Drue was just chilling. I went to get the water dispenser from Jimmy. Had to wait a bit since he wasn't around. And then he had to come out of a staff meeting to give it to me. How embarrassing. And yeah... I didn't get any certificate in the end, oh well. Umm... eventually more people came to the stall. Sharon, Amanda, Jia Chee, Alex, Moo-chan. Sharon and Raine changed into their costumes, and Alex had his huge ass Auron sword. Moo-chan made these pastries, macaroons I think they were, and I got eat one. It was nice. He was determined to force Chris to eat one of his foods this time. It was funny cause I had my cake and like... Alex ate mine but wouldn't it Moo-chan's. Cause he had a sore throat so he would only eat mine since mine were soft. Poor Moo-chan though.

Anyway, Sharon and Raine eventually changed into their costumes. And when Sharon walked through the campus centre to get water, ROFL. You should see the amount of people STARING AT US. I was wearing plain clothes but I was carrying Alex's sword. Which like reaches the ceiling. Yes, I know. I bet my family and friends back home probably think I'm a freak now. LOL. But oh well, I'm enjoying myself despite getting labelled a freak on campus (and please note, unlike high school, campus is like over 10'000 people ROFL). Whee, big difference since high school in terms of me confidence level.

Umm.. yeah. At 12 we made our way to the BBQ are at the Japanese Study Centre. So many things happened I kind of can't remember. Let's see, the BBQ fell over when Sandreep and co. tried to drag it over. Umm... Chris' Haruhi costume. He brought it for me but I didn't want to change. So I pointed at Moo-chan to wear it and HE DID. ROFL!! And Raine brought her purple wig also. It was perfect. And Moo-chan has glasses. Heh. So yeah, Drue and Vu changed. Which was just excellent. Lots of photos were taken. Uhh... my cake did well. Cosplayers included... Raine, Moo-chan, Alex, Sharon, Tam, Nat, Terence.. umm... yeah. And Drue and Vu, but that ain't cosplay. That's just cross dressing, lol. The actual BBQ was good. We had too many sausages. Seems Vu went crazy and bought 200 LOL. So I ate like 3 sausages. Sandreep, Sharon and William did most of the BBQ-ing. Poor them, Sharon and William got it pushed onto them I think.

So yeah. A lot of funny and... wrong things happened at the BBQ. Drue and Tam were so overly friendly with each other. Raine and Ming Ming were like... *coughs* well we all know what happened there. Heh. Nat made some yummy little cupcakes which she had bought the day before, and wrote like I <3 MCAC on it or something like that. It was a fun day anyway, that's what mattered. We got our MCAC t-shirts also. Which were cute. And a lovely group photo. <3

At around 2:50 PM, we had to go pay our bond for our house at Panorama. So we made our way over (me, Amanda, Jia Chee, Sharon, V and Stan). But uhh... there were some problems. For the bond, the receipt in this scrap piece of paper. Like seriously! We all freaked out and sort of refused to pay. I think the agent, Yenny, got annoyed at us while we were on the phone with her (we've never met her, it's always JUST her staff). In the end she just said not to pay today and we all left a little melancholy. Boo boo. We made our back to uni and I parted from the group to look for MCAC again, who were all still at the JSC despite the BBQ having finished.

Uhh... cause we had so many sausages Vu gave me a whole 'nother bunch to share with everyone (Amanda and co.). And Tam insisted on taking the bread also (which I didn't want but.. meh...) The after-BBQ was kind of amusing. More photos taken. Ming Ming gets on top of Raine *coughs*. Randomness. And then I finally decide to go cause it's getting late and I need to study. I walk back to the Halls with Jasmine and Owen, who parts way so yeah, just me and Jasmine. We have a little chat and I told her about the TripleC, and she said she would help out (which is a re-assurance considering how Jasmine works at Gloria Jeans and has waitering experience).

Later on in the day, Amanda went to collect the sausages from me to pan fry. Yay, sausage dinner AGAIN. LOL. Umm.. yeah. I felt guilty not helping out so I went over to Farrer but they all just made me study. T.T Well it was my exam the day after but.... anyway ate the sausages, bread, wedges and some veggies Sharon cooked up and went back to my room. It was rather uneventful.

Thursday
Exam time! Went to do my exam. It was rather easy actually. I think. There were some stupid questions that made no sense. I was a bit annoyed at one of my classmates INSISTING on cheating and talking to me, asking me a question she doesn't understand. When I refuse to answer and just ignored her, she went on to ask Raine instead who gave her a blank look and continued writing. Anyway, in the end Raine finished first at 30 minutes earlier, while I finished next at 15 minutes earlier.

We were sort of early for TripleC meeting so there wasn't much people in the cellar room. I just sat around, ate lunch and stuff. Ummm. In the beginning I remember Tam was there. And Serene. Raine brought over one of her Manifest friends, this guy called George to join our committee. George certainly... talks... very.. much. I sort of reconigzed him and found out later on he was the Sanji cosplayer from Manifest that I thought was awesome. So yeah, meeting with a whole lot of people. We didn't really do much cause we were waiting for Nat, and by that time I had to go so I actually missed most of the meeting. T-T

Class was... dull. I wanted to go back to the meeting, LOL.

When I went back there was this HUGE group of people in a circle and they all just stared at me. I was like.. O__o ... what? And everyone started moving somewhere. So I uhh.. just followed along. Apparently we were scouting another location for the cafe, the conference room (upstairs at the Campus Centre). These.. Shakespeare society people were using the place and wouldn't let us in so like.. we sat on the stage to wait. Anyway various things were discussed on stage. George chattered non-stop, Bernie 1 was doing suspicious things on his laptop (we found out on the forums what he was doing later on), Sharon, me, Jasmine, Nat and Moo-chan talked about the menu.

We finally got to see the conference room. It's a pretty good place. Not very big, but it has a nice little kitchen and stuff. The rest of the meeting was rather melancholy. Overall, people were stressed and cause our group was big and people kept breaking away / walking elsewhere, it meant that the 'meeting' was very disjointed. People weren't on top of things cause they weren't around during certain discussions. Which I found a bit irritating. And yeah, Raine was clearly really stressed and irritated, Alex was ill and sleepy, Nat and Moo-chan just wandered here and there in the end. Uhh... we were stressing about our lack of budget. And that made poor Nazri stress since he IS the treasurer afterall. Sharon, me, Jasmine and George chattered about the food for a bit and we came to a disagreement. I was a bit bleh. So yeah, meeting broke up and I ran off. Seems Drue had a dinner of some sort but I wanted to do my assignment for Monday.

I made a new forum for TripleC! Since I was worried about more miscommunication.

Friday
A nice and quiet day I guess. Went for Education classes. It was dull as always. Then I went to eat lunch. And then I went for this volunteer experiment thing. Um... about how people react in multi-strategical situations or something. Anyway, I get paid for participating in this experiment and it was rather fascinating. So what was it? The experiment just tested what kind of strategical decisions people would make in regards to economics. So what did this mean? Basically, we were tested to see how we would react to get more money (and we were actually paid this money). So the experiment was all on the computer, and was fairly simple. I couldn't physical talk to anyone.

It was made up of 3 rounds. The 18 people that were there were split into groups of 3 (person 1, 2 and 3). The Person 1 would forever be person 1. 2 and 3 switched around. How it works is that person 1 has to choose either A, B, C or D. There are these 4 brackets. And person 2 and 3 have to choose X or Y. What happens here is that in A, B, C or D, person 1 gains different amounts of money. So why wouldn't person 1 choose the one that gets him/her the most money? Because, how much everyone earns also depends on the choices person 2 and 3 makes. That is, the X and Y. So person 2 and 3 would choose the option that gets them the most money, and this might pull down person 1 (or the other person). Basically, A and D were not ideal choices for person 1 because A gave that person the most money but it meant that person 2 and 3 would both choose Y since it gives them the most money and person 1 nothing. D was out of the question, cause while D would mean everyone gets cash, person 1 gets the least. So just B and C left right? Choice B gives person 3 and advantage, while C gives person 2 and advantage.

A key point here is that B and C would be out of the question if person 2 and 3 could communicate, gang up and choose a choice where they both get the same amount and person 1 gets nothing. But because they couldn't communicate, person 2 and 3 (I was person 2 during round one) just fought for as much money we could get depending on person 1's choice.

Round 2 was interesting. Person 2 and 3 could NOW communicate via a chat window, which person 1 can't read. For a limited time (90 seconds which shortens to 60 eventually). The cons I had with this random person was weird, the person seemed to enjoy typing crap. But yeah, we agreed to gang up on person 1 if they chose either B or C. Person 1 pretty much stayed to choosing D the entire time, which is the choice where person 2 and 3 gets more, and person 1 gets left, but person 1 still gets something. If person 1 chose any other choice, he/she might get nothing since person 2 and 3 would collaborate.

Round 3 was the same as round one again. EXCEPT. This time, person 2 and 3 could collaborate despite having no communication. Note that in each round, the people you are grouped with are different (and anonymous). So round 3 displayed how we could all collaborate to get as much money as possible without communication cause we were already trained in round 2.

In the end, I earned AUD $48.30, hehe. Which was quite a bit more then other people. Since I heard others got like below $40, $41 or so. I guess I have good luck.

Saturday was Stan's bday. I was originally just gonna make some dish to bring for the pot luck party but like... I was requested for my cake. T.T So yeah...

Saturday
Went to Brandon Park in the morning. I realised that I had NOTHING to buy at all except for the cake stuff (well except for milk). So yeah, just bought that and ran back home. At noon, we went over to the Panorama house to meet Yenny and pay our bond and sign the agreement. Once and for all. Yay. We were uhh.... 15 minutes late. Ouch. Anyway Yenny was surprisingly young. O.O Had a cute kid also. The Panorama house... I was a bit out of it that I couldn't see my room as I agreed to take the smallest room in the house. I wanted to see it to reduce the shock next year you know. So like if it's really small I have time to calm down over choosing it and letting everyone else take the other rooms. Cause if it's smaller then Halls, goddamit. LOL. And I'm sure a number of you guys realise that although generally I'm really good natured, because I never get mad at anything when I do get irritated and emo I can just snap. Although I don't injure anyone, myself or break things though during my uhh... fits.. so I guess it shouldn't be a worry. Anyone, whatever. We paid for our bond with a cheque I wrote for everyone. So now I have a ridiculous amount of money in cash that everyone gave me and my bank account is significantly more empty. T.T

Today was FRICKEN HOT. Like 30 degrees. OMG. I forgot how painful it is to be in this burning heat without a trace of air conditioning anywhere. Especially when I spent the past 5 months or so freezing my little ass off every other night. See, I know Brunei and Malaysia always has that temp. But like, there are air cons in those places. There are no air cons in most buildings in Australia. And the summers here are hotter then Brunei. Ugh.

After we all dragged our extremely tired asses back to the Halls, well Sharon and Stan parted ways with us (Sharon attempted to drag Stan away basically so we could like.. go back to the Halls to cook for his surprise party), me and Amanda went to get my cake stuff to make the cake in Farrer. So yeah, spent a good amount of the afternoon doing that. I made 2 cakes actually. One is my usual, the other was an experiment. Cheesecake brownies, lol.

They were both a decent success. Amanda made soup, Jia Chee made fried rice and Sharon made deep fried chicken and some veggies. The chicken didn't go as she liked but she had outsider help luckily. Anyway, Stan knew of the surprise since Sharon accidentally sent a message to V about the party to Stan instead. Oh well, LOL. Tsan was there also, who walked over before it got dark. V walked her all the way back to her house at night (his car has broken down). We took a lot of pictures, uhh... Stan got his faced splattered with chocolate. Random stuff like that. I like my cheesecake brownies, haha. Don't think it was finished though, sad there wasn't enough people to eat it all. So it got wasted... boo. T.T

Anyway Stan invited me and Tsan (everyone else was already invited) to his actual party on Sunday at his family's middle to high class restaurant. We immediately panicked about our clothes and what you can wear to a middle to high class restaurant. LOL. Anyway, went to sleep on it.

Sunday
So I spent the day on my assignment. Considering how I was going out at night. In the afternoon, Tsan was rather worried about her clothes. Messaged Amanda a few times about clothing also. In the end, decided not to go formal. I thought I would wear a nicer top and a skirt though. Transport to the restaurant (which isn't very close), well.. Alex drove me, Amanda, Jia Chee and V. So yeah, made our way there. We were like half hour early cause Alex left early, he was afraid we might not find our way and allotted time for that. We had prawn chips placed in front of us... which we all ate. Umm... we met Stan's mom.. without knowing.. and assumed it was his older sister. Whoops. Stan has cute little sisters (which he called Little one #1 and Little one #2, unfortunately I can't seem to remember their names anymore).

Anyway lots of photos were taken. Met Stan's high school friends. Who were friendly. And .. liked.... anime. I was a bit hesitant to admit what club I was in (the answer to how I met Stan, while everyone else met him through other various means, I met Stan though MCAC), but it turns out his friend is also a fan. That's always good, LOL. Yeah, I shouldn't be hesitant at this point any more, but eh, I guess publically getting labelled as a freak now still needs time for me to get used to (and get indifferent about, must.. learn.. off.. Chris).

Food was good. I haven't eaten REAL GOOD chinese food in ages! It had these really nice SUPER SALTY SOY chicken. Haha. And other yummy various chinese food. Like ma-po Tofu. Sliced beef in black pepper sauce. Some yummy veggies. And dessert, fried ice cream and some normal ice cream. It wasn't really fried as we imagined it, (it was ice cream covered in nuts) but it was still good. Before leaving we had some last minute photos taken. Anyway, got home not too late and went to sleep to wake up early to finish my assignsments.

Monday
Yay! Freedom! Finished assignments! BWAHAHAHA! I went to uni to hand them in. And uhh.. came back. It was Rachel's bday on Monday. So I bought my present earlier, I wrapped it up and did something rather amusing. I went to her room, left the present on the ground, knocked on her door and bolted. LOL. She was like.. O___O at this. And laughing. Well I had to do some sort of a surprise. Anyway she invited me to join her and Chris (note, this isn't MCAC Chris, this is umm... Chris a friend from first semester, used to live in Roberts but had to leave Aus for some few months and came back now at Farrer Lords) at the nearby Chinese place to eat dinner together.

Yeah, we walked over and had a nice and pleasant dinner. It's always good to talk to Chris and Rachel again, since I haven't seen em' much at all lately. I had um.. honey chicken. Which was nothing but honey chicken and friend rice. Uhh... too much chicken. Not enough veggies, lol. It was nice though. Dessert, I carried some Mrs Fields cookies in my hand so we ate them.

Tuesday
Uneventful day. Attempted to study. Failed. Just messed around and didn't do anything. Cooked dinner. Had a shitty lunch, lol. Drue invited me to join the MCAC gang for a last dinner at um... some restaurant in the city on Saturday. We were considering whether to hit the pubs or crash Sharon's place after the dinner. Everyone might just want to go home though, since IT IS exams right now.

Today
Uneventful day. Attempted to study. Failed. Just messed around and didn't do anything. Cooked dinner again. Luckily lunch wasn't as shitty with leftovers from the previous night.

Amanda gave me a call in the morning just to see what I was doing and how I am. It was a pleasant surprise since we haven't talked for like... 2 days, I guess? I always appreciate the most mundane and everyday things. But even small things like a friend phoning me after 2 days just to see what I'm doing is something I can appreciate. Cause normally I don't see anyone doing that for me at all. If I don't actively go and talk to others, I can go without talking with certain people for months after months. Cause normally other people don't care about keeping in contact with me, you know? The most normal of things is special to me. Probably why I feel more happy this semester then I have done for the past 6 years. Having people like Amanda, Chris, Drue, Raine and Bernie message and invite me to things or just to say hi and see what I'm doing since we haven't spoken for a few days is just something I never really had before at any point of my life. (Next to family of course, who have always been the best to me, but I've always looked for a place outside family also, and never really found it)

I was... reflecting over certain things tonight. I could type it all here but I decided not too. As to not offend anyone. Maybe another day. But yeah, I'm pretty happy right now. I'm also really happy that I'm looking forward to next year. To coming back here next year. It's a surprise. I've never really looked forward to anything. I guess I look forward to living with Amanda, Jia Chee and Sharon. And the mountain of activities planned at MCAC next year. And hopefully a lot of new members + friends. And to go to GFN again every night. And new friends from there.

Tomorrow I must get in gear and begin studying for my exams! COM1020 Final Exam, November the 1st, LOL.

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.

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....

...busy...busy... *sobs*

Okay, watch as my pressure builds up. I REALLY need to do more work. ARRGHH!!

I got up at like 6 AM, and continued reading "Northern Lights", now on Monday night I'm only like on page 256 or something. Dammit, I have like 150 pages left. Can't do that by tomorrow! At 12:45-ish I went to uni to see Drue and co. Since they have their stall there to advertise the Karaoke night joint with the Caulfield Anime Club. Which I'm not going since me and Amanda have our flights like on the same day (or the day after, but my flight islike 5 minutes past the 18th, so I still consider that 17). I'm so sad. Miss the chance to see Nazri... Drue... Sharon (MCAC)... and co. singing. And becoming friends with the Caulfield guys. I dunno any of them. By the time I come back next year, everyone are friends with the Caulfield guys (if they're not already) and I haven't even met any of them! Noooes, left behind....
very

We sat around for hours, lol. Past 4, we shifted over to the cellar room since GFN starts at 5 (for volunteers). And yeah, did the usual, moved furniture around while everyone from the club just watched. T.T My brownies were kind of a success.... Drue, Chris and co. wasn't really that impressed, but I think I got decent compliments from GFN-ners like Han Lin and Tsan. Max seemed to like it though (and Nat never ate any ;__;) Probably just needs decorations to be sellable. But yeah, HL and Winston liked the batik cake I made a while back so uhh... yay... compliments from the master chefs themselves! >.>

Last GFN was made up of... DDR (this time using Bernie's mats, ps2 and games!), so the anime club monopolized it the most (although it was our... or should I say our fellow member's equipment, cept for the TV). Everyone had fun playing Uno Stacko though. We got some first timers there, uhh... Tam who stayed for a bit, Sharon (MCAC one) anddd... Jason. Who stayed finally. And Nazri finally stayed also (he normally doesn't). Yeah, the uno stacko! Maybe we should look into getting one for the club, it might be a way to make our lunches together more interesting for when we get bored occasionally. Oh and DDR... Chris beated me! AND HE'S A CRIPPLE TODAY. The guy was limping the entire day, and his arm can't move much. And he still beat me (and everyone else cept for Bernie) so yeah... bleh. I said I would train during my time in Brunei and return to challenge him! MY ARCH ENEMY.

After GFN we headed to maccas. Uhh.. that is, Drue, me, Amanda, Bernie, Alex and Vu. Sharon, Jason and Chris apparently went home to do work. Didn't stay too long since we all have work (except for Alex, who's work is to play... a certain video game). T.T Me and Amanda shared a "Crunchie" McFlurry there, which I didn't think was that nice. I want purely Oreos next time, lol. At maccas we... did random things like go through each others wallets and laugh at each others fugly ID photos.

Housing... is getting complicated again. I got a call from this guy who saw an ad I posted up online at the Monash Marketplace message board about needing a 4 bedroom house. So I arranged for inspection at 10. It's just me and Amanda and I didn't feel comfortable walking to a strangers house with just us two girls so we decided to call V and ask him to drive/accompany us. I'll probably take a look before heading to the previously mentioned house to look at the lease agreement. I will be skipping my lecture tomorrow for the house inspection (lecture is at 10 lol...). Oh well. Housing is more important!

Either way, both houses I'm looking at is close to Tsan's place. Ehehe, I can crash their place more often next year. XD This house inspection I'm going for tomorrow is pretty far from uni though. Probably a 25 minute walk for me (the guy said 15 - 20 minutes but I walk too slow). And it's more expensive. Hopefully it's a nice house.

Anyway, I'll just do a bit more reading and then sleep.

Getting lazy...

I'm getting kind of lazy blogging. Too busy, too tired.. too everything. So yeah, the past two days. Let me see.

Friday was a boring day. Got up at 6 AM, went for lecture and presentation for Education at 10 AM. The lecture was funny. It was about technology and how it affected education and the lecturer was this obvious WoW geek who told us to all leave our phones on so it could ring during the lecture. No one's phone ever did, although one guy got a message and the lecture was like questioning him about the contents of his message, lol. My presentation went all. The usual happened, it was a bit unbalanced for once, Debbie almost did everything. Oh well. At lunch, I normally spend my 2 hours on my own sleeping in the Menzies. I expected Bernie to pop in but lo' and behold, Chris appeared. Apparently he missed his lecture. He kept me company (we were both silently reading) but I fell asleep on my bean bag. And when I woke up Chris was gone.

Went for media studies lecture + tutorial then finally~ home. I spent most of Friday night working on the MCAC website. Since it's outdated and I told Chris I would work on it in case our potential sponsors may look at the place. At 10-ish I went over to Amanda's place for a bit just to make sure she's coming for our house inspection today (Saturday). They were all watching a movie or something, lol. But yeah, MCAC website! Spent ages on it. I kind of like the finishing results, although it is a bit plain. Might shove up another layout during Summer vacation where I can utilize images of us (which is what I wanted to do originally). I really wanted to make this group picture of us from Manifest into a banner or something...

The picture is missing quite a few people though. Hopefully we can get an even better group picture in the next few weeks.

http://www.monashclaytonanimeclub.co.nr/

Saturday. Uhh... I woke up at like... 7 AM. Went to Brandon Park at 9-ish. Stayed there a bit too long staring at... baking stuff. I was considering trying it out for the MCAC cafe. You know, to see if any of it tastes decent to sell. Ran into Amanda and co. as I went back. 11:30 went to find Amanda and everyone for our house inspection. Umm... so yeah, Sharon and Stan weren't ready yet so Amanda, me and Jia Chee went ahead. The house was.... alright. It was a bit small, dark and not a very "homely" place. But it's a lot cheaper compared to the Halls and is pretty close to uni. So yeah, I emailed to apply for it. If we do get it Amanda said we can brighten up the place ourselves to make it like a home. Only bad thing is that some random guy we dunno will be staying with us. Sharon, Stan and Jonathan came later and we even talked to one of the tenants. Apparently she never talks much with her housemates. D: D:

Went back. I wanted to join Amanda and co. for lunch but when I tried to get in by phoning her and Sharon, they didn't pick up. So I went *sobs* and ran back to my room. An hour later Amanda finally saw her phone and let me in. Heh. I got ice cream and Tim Tams though at their place. Yay. Uhh... yeah. We then spent 2 painful hours trying to apply for the pink house mentioned before (the big one). We ran into a lot of problems like... how we have NO REFEREES. Well next to Jimmy, our supervisor/boss at GFN. In the end, we went with V (I don't even know his occupation, but he's like 32... so hopefully that works?) and Jonathan. It was funny, we were like brainstorming people. Potential other referees I blurted outloud were included Mitze, Chris and even Han Lin's cousin, ROFL. XD (I also thought of Jasmine and Drue in my mind hahahaha)

During application, Sharon and Stan fell asleep. Everyone was generally sleepy, so after me and Amanda got the application lodged I went back. Spent the night making some quick dinner, reading and yeah... surfing online. I really need to study.

I reallly reallly really need to study. No more playing for me. Must do the following...

1. Read English Lit novels that I fell behind on (Northern Lights, The Thief Lord, The Princess Bride and the Amulet of Samarkand). This will be difficult because these books are long.

2. Do English Lit Essay.

3. Do Education Assignment.

4. Finish EIL Assignment.

5. Study for EIL Exam.

6. Study for Media Studies Exam.

7. Study for English Lit Exam.

I can do it. I hope. Can't wait to go home.... (I want a welcome from my dear family and Liz and Manju when I get back, lol. Sad that Mag isn't around anymore..... D: D: D: D: D:)

By the way, it seems calling me "Celiney-Beany" is spreading. T.T First Nat did it, then Chris... now even Nazri!! @.@

Booo presentations... and houses....

Ahhhh, man. What a downer of a day.

What the hell did I do. I kind of don't remember. Bleh, got up at like 8 AM I think it was, skipped breakfast... went for lunch at 11 AM with MCAC (there was... Chris, Bernie, Sharon, Vu, Drue and Jason...). 12:30... tutorial for english lit. On book I didn't read. Didn't say anything, didn't do anything. I think I fell asleep for five minutes of the class. Didn't help that the tutor is like.. right next to me. So he knew I was doodling, eating chocolate and sleeping in the class.

Went back to "The Secret Hideout", Natalie and Drue were there. V suddenly called and then he called Tsan over to drive her back. Apparently he was gonna drive me, Jia Chee and Sharon (MUISS) to our house inspection. In the end they joined us for it, lol.

The agent was really late for the house inspection. The house was nice though, it was like... on the same road as that house Ieja, Aya and Nabila stayed in before they moved to the Townhouse/Halls.... but yeah, no furnishings. So boo. The house was around the same design as Ieja's place before, except it was all pink. It was nice though... a nice pink and HUGE ass girly house. All for only $420 per week. If only there was furniture... *sighs*.... I was getting a bit down about the housing, the amount of choices we have left are... too limited now. There's no way we'll be able to find a furnished household.

Sharon and me talked for a bit and yeah, I won't give up just yet. Phoned this lady about a rooming house. Where I rent the room and stuff. Not the house. Sharon was worried about the lack of a contract though. And I didn't realise it myself. Forgot that no contract means that we're at the mercy of the landlord. And landlords loooove to take advantage of the insecure students who don't want to risk being thrown out and homeless. But yeah, inspection on Saturday. Let's hope this goes well. But everyone I know who has or is at a rooming house isn't having a good experience with it. Cause the landlord is always trying to fuck everyone up.

Running out of choices. Stress, stress, stress.

Went home. Made dinner (out of random stuff I still have...). Then worked on Education presentation. I struggled with it since I like... wasn't really there at the Melbourne show much. At 10, I went over to Debbie's place since I was getting worried it would be too late to discuss with her. And I ran out of things to type. So we both discussed in my room over what we were generally gonna do tomorrow. Once again, we have a messy unplanned plan. But our presentations are always like this and they always go well!

Heh, I'm generally alone and isolated in all my classes (with the exception of EIL, all my other classes I'm normally the only international student.. cept for media also actually...), I'm pretty lucky to have gotten Debbie as me partner. XD We work fairly well together, despite that fact that we're both like completely different people. I mean I'm like some random Chinese, International student who lives.. well not in a city but a generally urbanised area. And Debbie's a local Australian who grew up on farm land. Tomorrow's our last collaboration together, hope it goes well. No idea whether we will still be partners next year.....

Drue asked me to maccas again but I'll probably take another rain check. I wanna sleep soon....

Oh right, I forgot to say. Last night was funny. The fire alarm went off at like past midnight, and for the first time ever I like... just didn't go, lol. Wasn't bothered. I was telling Chris on msn how I would tell him my last words to my family if there really was a fire. I was expecting my luck to be so bad, you know, like the only time I don't go is the only time there is fire. Seemed like another false alarm though.

MCAC, and randomness....

Okay... today was a weird day. Nothing went to my usual "day plan".

I woke up at like... or tired to wake up at 5 AM to do my assignment. But I had trouble getting up. Woke up at 6 AM instead. Did my assignment until 12 then went off for MCAC lunch at 12. More people turned up at lunch today, uhh... me, Sharon (MCAC), Bernie 1, Bernie 2, Raine, Chris, Moo, Sandreep, Natalie, Max, Alex, Jason and Owen. Hopefully I didn't miss anyone out. Random things during lunch! Photos (cam whoring), commented on Raine's diet (Raine is SO DAMN THIN... like thinner then everyone else I know.. and she's still dieting. She was eating diet yogurt for lunch... but in the end she ran off and came back with a chocolate sundae, lol). Everyone else was eating fried chicken and fries and stuff, I was eating my mee hoon. Moo brought some of his recipes for the cafe we're planning to do... and yeah. Screenings next uhh....

More people at screenings. Like 30+ today. I met the new mystery member on our forums, our first African member (I think?), Junior! Yay, meeting different people is awesome! I dunno who why suddenly get these interesting characters appearing in our club at like.. the end of second semester. First Moo suddenly appears (he joined the club the day he found out about it, and criticised the club out loud on the same day also, lol, that's how I noticed it at first) then I meet Junior. Didn't talk to him much but he seemed like a nice guy.

After screenings.... EIL assignment consultation! ... I waited half an hour. Booo. Everyone else went to eat lunch together again after screenings, but my consultation was over 40 minutes more then what I expected to be (I managed to get out at 3 PM, I was supposed to be done by 2:20 PM. So yeah, by the time I got back to the Main Dining Room, it was only Vu, Bernie 2, Lee and Drue left. I should say the consultation went well... my crappy ass essay was actually complimented. The world is strange ... lol.. but yeah, we talked... and talked.. until 4 PM. Aaaah. My precious studying time. Of course, Bernie had it worse. I mean she was supposed to do her report and what was she doing? Talking to us for no reason. Our little lunch meeting was pretty funny. We talked about costumes and stuff also, since I can't really sew, hopefully Lee will help me with my costume next year (he finishes uni already but he said he's only working part time and will still help with our club). Why doesn't he want to work full time? lol I mean after uni is where you life really begins! And you should work full time to do that ... T__T

Anyway at 4 PM-ish we decided we should all go home and do something productive. So I was texting Amanda on the way back and she suggested to have our pot luck. And invite the GFN gang. It was all to celebrate thanks to V for always driving us around. I was a bit taken aback because I didn't really have much food we could cook for that many people. I normally only buy enough food for myself, you know. I decided to try another batch of batik cake, since I already had the ingredients which weren't getting used.

So yeah, after calling and texting people like crazy (my credit~ *sobs*... I have like $6 left, lol) at 5 AM I stuffed all the food into my green bag and went over to Farrer Hall. I immediately started making my cake since if I didn't we wouldn't be able to eat it by tonight. Amanda and Jia Chee helped out ... uhhh... and that took quite a while (yay frying chocolate again!). At the same time everyone started making the various dishes for dinner. It was funny, because we all didn't have much food to feed 10 people, just all this pasta. But no pasta sauce. So like... Jia Chee used her magic and literally made up two sauces out of nothing (one of them was like garlic, butter, spices, mustard and a load of cheese, hahahaha, it was good though). I did my usual pasta bake and the cake (actually I only did the cake though, I mean, the pasta bake, I chopped some carrots but Jia Chee did most of it, I cut the spam, Jonathan who we unfortunatley made him do work the second he stepped into the kitchen sliced the mushrooms and Amanda fried all the food and cooked the pasta). Just that a lot of the raw food was my food, but I didn't actually do that much work...

I thought we wouldn't finish cooking in time but we did... yeah, after my cake was done I just did my pasta bake. Uhh... we cooked too much veggies and had all this extra pasta, so Jia Chee used the veggies, the water from the veggies and a load of spices and stuff and made this yummy spicy sauce. It was good. Amanda was right when she said Jia Chee had this cooking magic, haha. Honey chicken we ovened was done, last thing was my pasta bake. Cake in the fridge. Yeah, then we sat there and waited for Tsan, V and Sharon to come over. By this time Brian and Mun Jone had came. Apparantly Han Lin and Winston decided not to come (I suspect cause me and Amanda scared them off asking them to cook something, lol, or it isn't much of a pot luck, but yeah, they had assignments so I guess it's understandable too). Tsan and V came and then Sharon. And yay, dinner.

I was complaining during dinner because there's this small TV in the Farrer dining area kind of and like... everyone was watching that retarded "Are you smarter then a 5th grader?" game show. Bah, this is why in media studies I read things like how TVs are evil because they further separate the nuclear family and reduce social interaction during meal times! Which is supposed to be one of the moments where you socialise with your family or peers or whoever you are eating with. Boo boo boo. After eating, we took out my cake. Brian brought over some date pudding. And V and Tsan brought over ice cream (and drinks). Yay, my cake was edible, I was a bit worried about that. And it looked better then my previous attempt, lol. Unlike last time, I baked this cake a bit this time (only for a short while though) so it was a lot more solid! I got compliements and praise *___*.

All the food made us REALLY FAT though. I mean we were like eating down cake, ice cream and pudding at the same time. After eating all that pasta and chicken for dinner, lol.

After dinner... uhhh.. Sharon was sleepy so she went to her room. Same with Mun Jone. It was me, Amanda, V, Jia Chee, Brian and Jonathan left. And we had like the most retarded conversations ever. I think everyone was waiting to see what I would blog about this.... well... Jonathan, who looked like a proper, I dunno about innocent but proper and decent person, kept going about pee, and crap (literally!) and whatever else. I dunno how we could talk about urinals for like half an hour. T__T I kinda can't remember now but yeah, we didn't exactly have the most... decent... conversations.... Jonathan just wouldn't give up in telling us girls the problems men face in urinals, lol. It's always like this with GFN people though anyway. No one is innocent ever (we all blame V though)! But eh, MCAC does it too. One second we're talking about fluffy bunnies, the next second the con turns X-rated.

Anyway, it was like 11 AM and I promised to see Debbie tonight, and I didn't so yeah I left. Before going back to my Hall I just popped by Laura's room, who's also in Farrer, on the first floor compared to Amanda and co. who are on the third (The Laura you guys know to the ISB people reading this blog) since I was already there and yeah, thought I would knock on her door. Her room is pretty cool. Lots of stuff stuck everywhere. She was looking good and hyper as usual. Heh. Seems she isn't leaving Farrer next year, might become an RA or something.

Yeah, went to Debbie's room. Thank you to Debbie for doing all the work in our Education presentation, lol. So yeah, she sent me the info she gathered working at the Melbourne show, my job is to analyze and write crap on the info / say why it is relevant to what we learn in the course. Anyway, by the time I showered and stuff it was like 1:30 .. me is sleepy, lol, so yeah sleep time!

I should say, that... in the end, my day plan was gone! I was planning to go home after my consultation, study, make dinner, eat it and study even more. In the end I didn't do anything, lol! It's almost exams, I need to do a Nazri forego meeting people soon.

Tomorrow, next to lunch with MCAC, my EIL seminar was cancelled so just English Lit tutorial (on a book I didn't read) and then I will be heading to do some house inspection with Jia Chee and hopefully Sharon. The agents arranged this one so unfortunately Amanda cannot come.

Yay, it's Monday!

Monday. Uni again. Not that I have class, lol. EIL lectures are finished now (although we still have seminars). I just worked on my assignment until 1 PM, where I went off to uni to firstly pick up my airplane ticket, then met up with Amanda (who was with Jia Chee and Jie Yen) to go to Clayton road shops. To visit the real estate agent for inspection arrangements and buy food for this week.

Inspection was suprisingly... easy. The first agent was like... come by tomorrow to pick up the keys. Uhh... okay. No appointment either, lol. The second one took my name and number down to arrange an appointment. I then went to the Asian butcher, the fruit and veggies market and Coles to buy food for this week.

Went back, sat around for an hour, worked on my assignment a bit. Then went out again to the library to get books for the assignment. I was a bit early for GFN, so I just sat around (Nazri was there, and then Vu came also but they both just sat there typing on their laptops). No one really showed up at first. And Mitze didn't come. So I was really wondering what was up. And then we couldn't get the west wing of the Cellar room open because it was being used for graduations. Mitze eventually phoned me and Jie Khai, telling us she was sick. So yeah, today whoever was around sort of set the place up without our leader/boss to order us around. I was a bit worried because chain of command tends to break down when the leader is not around, ya know?

That and I like asked/forced my dear MCAC friends to come to GFN today for some DDR. V and Jie Khai set the place up for me (thanks~) but sadly the ps2 wasn't chipped, so none of Bernie's games worked. All we had was this one game with like 5 songs. It was pretty shitty. And I must apologize to Bernie that a lot of random visitors of GFN stepped on her mat. Yeah, from MCAC, Chris, Drue, Bernie, Natalie, Raine and Nazri came. Not including me and Vu who are always there.

We played Twister which was kind of fun. But the mat was sort of small. And a bit of DDR. And we did a lot of other random things, like take "wrong" photos *coughs* and uhh... yeah. It was kind of nice having the MCAC people around, although it meant I had to jump around a lot. Stan, who ditched our club since last semester, finally saw everyone again, haha. And he asked us whether Drue and Raine were going out. Well... that's a new one, lol.

DDR... I lost to Drue. T__T I dunno... I just really sucked. And Bernie lost to Chris?! O__O It's rigged! Rigged I tell you! And we also had these arm wrestling matches. I'm so weak! I couldn't beat Natalie or Amanda. I can understand Nat because she like... does Karate man... but Amanda... well Amanda is around my size so I guess it's not surprise. I would be depressed if I lost to Tsan or Raine though, lol (especially Raine... the smallest of us all).

I've now gotten used to calling Vu "Kami-sama" and Bernie.. "Borny", lol. I might stop soon though if it pisses them off too much. There wasn't enough pizza at GFN also sadly, so some people had to wait for a long time for dinner. Especially Syahir. OMG, I mean he was fasting and had nothing to eat to break his fast? That's... amazing.

Anyway, second last GFN was short, quiet but wasn't too bad. Hopefully next week will be good. The meeting talked as though we may not have anymore GFNs. Nooo~ what will I do next year?! Thank god I still have MCAC. Which will be busy next year.. hopefully. Well, we're planning activities, dunno if we will go through with them (since this semester hasn't been too eventful...).

Paintball Part Two

Bruises, bruises and even more bruises! Today was Paintball again with MCAC and the Mauritian Dodo club. I got up at like 8:30 AM, did absolutely nothing for most of the time and at 12:45 Vu picked me and Aaron up at the bus loop to drive us to the paintball centre. We got Sharon, Bernie and David at Huntingdale station also but the centre is like a 3 minute walk away so I thought that was a bit redundant. It seems Vu was a bit too excited with coming early, we were like an hour or so too early, lol. So we just hung outside while Vu was trying to sell us his contraband... I mean show us the sizes for the MCAC t-shirts. Lots of other people came as time went on of course, Lee, Nazri, David, Tim, Tam...etc.

We waited indoors for a while. Random stuff happened like Tam's hair was supposedly extremely flat today, to the point that no one could recognized him. I didn't either but I only met Tam like... once before this so I kind of forgot his face. And kept grabbing Vu's hat, unless you couldn't tell, Vu ALWAYS has a hat on (well almost anyway ...). Tam told me that he lost his hat once and went out to buy the exact same hat. Other random things... well, David forgot my name and called me Casini. T_T Well he didn't forget since after that he realised I was Celine... I told David I would get my revenge but in the end I was on the same team as him. From MCAC, there were only four girls, me, Sharon, Bernie and her friend (who left early) so we stuck together. The Mauritian club only had 2 other girls also.

So yeah, we finally got in, did the usual paintball stuff. Sign documents, get clothing and gear. I bought an extra 200 paintballs this time, so I had 400 paintballs to waste. Heh, me, Sharon, Bernie and her friend bought like a 900 paintball pack, each of us took 200 except for Sharon who wanted another 300. Alex came over to the paintball centre also as a spectator, so he took videos and photos of us.

The first field we were in was that car and tire one. Where we played Highlander and some other games. Unlike when I went with GFN there were more game variations this time. Besides Highlander (push opposing team to the bunk) we also had another one where your timed and you gotta take out the other team (who have one life). I was only yellow team again this time, where most of the MCAC members were actually. Only a few were on the other side (Sharon, Vu and eventually Bernie 1 for starters). In the beginning, I took kind of a leadership role. I mean we were playing Highlander so I was telling everyone to just charge in rather then go for slow and steady pincer attack. It didn't go as well as I would of liked.

I forgot to say, MCAC and Dodo Mauritian club are A LOT MORE aggressive then the GFN group. The charging didn't work, they also charged and we were shot to bits and pieces. I took like a couple of shots here and there (arm and leg I think). But apparantly everyone began to like charging in. The next game we still sort of charged in, can't really remember too well what happened. During defence time, I hid in the back lol. And didn't get hit at all. So yeah, yellow team won all the games in the first round. Go us!

Second field was the wild west one. OMG, I got the most injured in this one. So we did that plushie game where you run to get dolls in the middle. Then we did another one where there are money bags in the money house and you have to run to get that. In the first game, it was pretty funny. When we started me and Bernie ran to this home and I had a AWESOME time sniping everyone who was trying to take out our members getting the dolls. Getting people off guard is so much fun, I was shooting through the door and no one saw me being all busy shooting the windows. Didn't get hurt here.

But next game, ouch ouch ouch. The money one, while our team was still finalizing our strategies the guy was like BARRELS OFF, SAFETY OFF, START! And we were all in a mess. Everyone still had their safety on and we were shot at and ran in different directions all messed up. So much for our strategy. I couldn't get any closer to the front (I was at the back by the wild west houses) since when I tried I was shot at. Eventually there was this guy at the door way near me, I appeared, got shocked and BAM BAM BAM. 3 shots under 8 metres to the thigh. I was like DAAAMNNNN SHIT SHIT SHIT FUCCCCKKK OWWWWWW!!! Do not get shot under 8 metres people. T_T I dragged myself back to the safety box after this.

A break and then we went to that inflatables field. I hated this one. So we had the flag game. I didn't do much but the strategy our group used was funny. By this time everyone seemed to enjoy going trigger happy and suicidal. So our group strat was basically to use meat shields to get the flags. Everyone literally clumped together ran out like suicidals and the first line of defence (made up of David, Tam and one other MCAC member) served as shields for whoever was behind him, so if the person in front got taken down there was still people behind to grab the flag. When it was our turn to grab the flag everything happened so fast I didn't even do anything before the game was over. T.T

I remember one game where everyone ran to the centre, and so did the other team. Everyone started yelling out SURRENDER!!! since it was too close to shoot. We had another game here also where it ended really early because the other team was disqualified? Apparently the referee caught people cheating, even after getting shot they still continued charging forward when they shouldn't.

According to Alex it was really funny to watch on this field with our strategy. As the other team used pincer attack while ours was charging through in a clump. So we fell for their attack since we all stuck together and would just end up surrounded in the middle. Not that everyone seemed to anyway. David was hilarious in this one. Since he was the meat shield, he ran around literally waving his arms to everyone to get people to shoot him. So that people behind David could get the people who took him out. The guy got like waaay to many shots to the chest.

A break then we went onto the last field, the J.F. Kennedy one. When we were trying to get their J.F. uhh... it didn't go too well. We were at a standstill. I was stuck behind a tire before I got shot in the knee and shoulder, after that I hobbled to the safety area and had trouble running back into the game. Cause the second I ran out of the safety area I could feel paintballs flying by my head. When we had to defend our J.F. Kennedy, well I took out some people and didn't get shot at all. Big mistake, by the time I was shot everyone was almost gone except for me and a few others. So I put my leg too far out behind the tire, everyone pointed their guns at me and bleh, 3 shots to the leg and arm. X.X

Anyway, everyone still had paintballs left so we played Highlander on this field again. I wanted to use up my paintballs (Bernie still had over a 100) so I went a bit trigger happy here. The highlander didn't go too well though, we were at a standstill again. I got a head shot here, ran back and went back in but it was almost over then.

Lastly, for all remaining paintballs... the Mexican shootoff. I deliberately didn't take part in this at the GFN paintball sesssion because I didn't want to. The Mexican shootoff is where we like stand pretty close to each other, point our guns at each other and shoot until there are no more paintballs. No moving, no running behind cover or anything.

When the guy said to begin I immediately went %$#%%!@!!$#%#OMGWTFBBQ@$#)%$!!!%)# X_________X X_________X

People like Bernie were lucky, apparently no one really shot at her. (Although she and Sharon had fun pointing a gun at this guy who was like a rag doll with the amount of shots he got hit with) Yeah, I was shocked because I got like 4 neck shots at least (in the same spot), head shots, arm shots and chest shots (which don't affect me luckily). I immediately just pulled the trigger, surrendered and ran to safety. Didn't even know what was going on, I couldn't see anymore since my mask was covered in paint.

Anyway I was tired so I was glad it was all over. I deciding whether to take Alex's car to Bernie's house, where we were to drive over to Sophia's for dinner, or take Lee's car back to the Halls of Residence since he was driving Nazri back. I decided not to shower, so I went to Bernie's house to DDR! Hahaha. I really sucked, either I was tired or I relapsed? But yeah, only MCAC would have the energy to DDR after being shot left and right in paintball. Raine, Drue and Chris messaged/phoned us on our way back, heh. Anyway, we left for Sophia's at 6:45 PM, we were starving. I didn't get any lunch either (well I ate a can of sardines and some biscuits).

The first and last time I came to Sophia's was O-week of semester one. Since Roberts Hall went there. I remember eating a plate of 3 different pasta's with Grace and Eugene. This time at Sophia's we had me, Bernie 1, Bernie 2, Vu, Lee, Nazri, Alex, Sharon, Tim and a new member, Mootian. We all decided later on to call him Moo. At Sophia's we had.. 2 plates of the 3 pasta's on a plate, there was ravioli, vegetarian lasagna and spaghetti carbonara. And 3 pizzas, vegetarian one, some Mexican one and the special (with everything on it almost). At dessert Alex, Bernie and co. ordered this large bowl of assorted gelati and this huge ass slice of Tiramisu. O.O We had problems getting that finished...

As Chris and Drue kept messaging us to ask whether we were doing anything after dinner, well... people wanted to play pool so I suggested just heading to Roberts Hall since the common room with the pool tables are probably free (holidays + friday night = free). So yeah, we went there! Me, Bernie and Sharon stopped at Coles at Brandon Park on our way to the Halls to buy some drinks. We had a nice little time in the common room, lol. It was a bit weird to see people like Bernie 1, Vu and Lee in the common room though. Everyone went home fairly early, but I think Drue, Chris and Bernie stayed out a bit longer. I was tired by 12 AM so I went back to my room. Have to wake up in time for the Tulip Festival afterall.

GFN + DDR

Yay, I got up at like 4:00 AM to do my assignment. Or more like 4:30 since I didn't actually get up until half hour later. Chris was online and like PMed me on the MCAC forums asking what I was doing up so late. More like up so early, lol.

Worked on assignment until GFN meeting at 10 AM. At 9:45 AM Mitze suddenly phoned me, I thought I was late or something. So I went ahead and I thought I was late cause like... other Halls people (Amanda, Sharon and Jonathan) were nowhere in sight. Turns out I was early. Really early. Meeting didn't really start until 10:30.

The meeting was pretty interesting. We did some cross-uncross activity that emphasized the importance of body language. Had a game where we seperated into different segregated groups (first off, male - female, then glasses - contacts - no glasses then nationality). Where we discussed the problems in communication and friendship that may occur due to these different groupings (like how we tack on stereotypes and generalizations almost instantly). And stuff like nationality, well how minority groups may feel left out. I liked the point made out in this part the most. Most of the volunteers are Malaysians (almost everyone is Malaysian, with one Bruneian, me, 2 Mauritanians, a few Chinese, few Singaporeans and one Sri Lankian and Bangladeshis. Although I have no problem hanging with Malaysians since Bruneians are hardly any different from them at all (we aren't really, except for some minor differences like what kind of celebrations we have, I know Malaysia for example takes pride in celebrating their Independance day, while Brunei has like a huge celebration for the Sultan's bday and stuff). But yeah, as a constant minority you can, and I have, felt incredibly lonely.

I'm glad GFN went ahead to address this problem. This problem of exclusion and how to avoid it, like how people start talking in their own language. This immediately excludes everyone else around you. Mind you, I've already accepted how a lot of people do that to me (talk in their own language), I spent most of MUFY bearing this problem. But I guess MUFY was all I could take, language problems have caused such a huge wound in my heart I don't think I can function right anymore around people who don't speak English....

We then did this activity where you answer some choice questions then use it to assess your personality. Like whether you are aggressive (competitive), passive, compromiser, collaborator. I scored the most in compromiser. Passive and competitive are generally seen negative, since passive = doormat basically while competitive you can lose a lot of friends only thinking for yourself. Collaborator is the best but difficult to reach such a stage. Compromiser has a bit of everything (which fits me, I'm competitive, I wanna win all the time and I think of myself a lot yet I'm also passive occasionally).

Then free pizza lunch! We hung around taking photos and stuff too. I was waiting for the time to reach 1:45 AM as I was to meet Alex and Aaron outside the Education building since Alex was driving us to Bernie's house for a MCAC DDR party! Nat was supposed to be driven but she went by bus with Owen in the end. Amanda decided not to come to DDR.

So yeah, met Alex and Aaron. We went there, Bernie wasn't even home. Met her brother Gabby, which turned out to be one of Aaron's classmates (lol, odd revelation... what, my classmate is a fellow club member's brother?). Then Bernie came. DDR was a lot of fun! I totally sucked at it, but I picked it up fast and got better since I guess I have played it before a long time ago in Brunei. And we do have a DDR mat at home. But I still sucked. People like Natalie, Drue and Nazri had never played DDR in their lives and did pretty good (and got better a lot faster). Bernie and Chris were like pros, Bernie especially. They said they would go to GFN next week just to play the DDR there. (Hopefully Drue and maybe Owen will come to? I mean GFN is always going on about needing more white Australians...)

We had 4 mats, 2 outside which were Bernie's and 2 Chris brought along in Bernie's room. Chris's was pretty cool, he had anime songs on them! I've never seen them before, it was cool. But they were really hard and dancing in Bernie's room was impossible with the carpet. The mat kept sliding, so everyone was bad on it. So yeah, generally stuck to the outside one.

DDR we had me, Bernie 2 (female Bernie, the host), Bernie 1 (the tech guy), Alex, Aaron, Chris, Owen, Drue, Natalie, Vu, Raine and Nazri over. Vu, Raine and Nazri left pretty fast. Vu left first (well Bernie 1 didn't come until past 5). Then Raine and Nazri left at 5-ish. Then Owen and Natalie left before dinner. So we had PIZZA dinner again, that is the two Bernies, me, Alex and Drue. The pizza was really good though. It was huge!

Bernie 1 brought over his Wii, so we ended up playing Wii sports first. During boxing, LOL! It was funny. I pwned Natalie extremely fast, scaring everyone off (OMG Celine is aggressive @_____@). Then I KO-ed Bernie 2. Then I KO-ed Bernie 1. Then Chris came along and defeated me in the third round. Then we played Mario Party! It's a four player game so me, Drue, Chris and Alex played that. Uhh.. it was pretty fun. I was losing for a good part of the game, but in the end I won, lol. Out of sheer luck. Then they played this Mario soccer game and then some killing game. But I was asleep or more like I closed my eyes on Bernie's couch for the duration of that.

At 10 AM, Alex drove me home because I wanted to sleep.

Yay, sleep time, will get up at 4 AM tomorrow to finish my assignment. I have until 5 PM tomorrow, heh. I'll probably relax for the rest of tomorrow. V, Tsan and group I think are going to IMAX theatres, but I probably won't finish my assignment in time to join them.