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.
Monday, 8 October 2007
Sunday, 7 October 2007
And we're taking the house...
New layout! I got bored of the old one...
So I woke up this morning with an email from the agent / landlord person of that house I previously mentioned. The fully furnished rooming house which wasn't really that impressive. Not exactly the house of your dreams, and Izzati's place is so much better. But yeah, we were offered the place and we decided to take it. Generally because it's unlikely we will be able to find a better location (near to uni, the Clayton shops, Izzati's place, Tsan's place, etc) and it's cheaper then the Halls (at $125/week including everything). And it's furnished, so there's no fuss. I'm glad to get the worry of finding a place to live off my back also. Now I can concentrate on my 3 assignments and exams.
Okay, the house was a bit dark and gloomy when we went over, so hopefully we can make it a more personalised, pleasant and homey place with our... decorations. I'm already planning. When I get back home, I gotta return with some posters, wall hangings and a table cloth. I'm also looking into getting a cheap couch or something for the dining room (or maybe a beanbag chair, they're pretty cool and cheap) and a table and chairs set for the outdoors (one thing we have over others is a huge ass backyard, lol. Since it's a house). Oh and a rug / carpet! Hmm... matching rug and tablecloth would be good for the dining room actually. It'll make it look more pretty since that's room's gonna be like the "communal" area since our house lacks a living room unfortunately (the main reason everyone's turned off by it).
We phoned the agent, and Sharon talked to her into letting us see the lease agreement first before paying the bond. As we don't want to randomly just give out money. The woman actually asked to pay today (Sunday) but that's just ridiculous. I don't even have enough money with me, lol. Yeah, went over to Farrer Hall for lunch with the group, and I baked / tried out the brownie mix for the MCAC cafe next year. Uhh... me, Amanda, Jia Chee, Sharon and Stan ate like half the cake, haha. I'll be bringing the rest over to GFN tomorrow to give to MCAC people who are there. The cake / brownies were nice but... it looked too ugly. Far too ugly to sell. Back to the drawing board for me. Gotta improve baking skills over the summer.
Went back to the room. Generally spent the time reading English Lit novel ("Northern Lights" the last book for the semester, I wanna finish it so I can at least go to ONE lecture that I actually understand what the hell the lecturer is saying). Jia Chee invited me over for dinner, so with some of my leftovers from yesterday, I had some yummy mushroom, cabbage, eggplants and prawns to go with my rice. *is so happy Jia Chee can cook* Ehehehe. On to finish Northern Lights!
So I woke up this morning with an email from the agent / landlord person of that house I previously mentioned. The fully furnished rooming house which wasn't really that impressive. Not exactly the house of your dreams, and Izzati's place is so much better. But yeah, we were offered the place and we decided to take it. Generally because it's unlikely we will be able to find a better location (near to uni, the Clayton shops, Izzati's place, Tsan's place, etc) and it's cheaper then the Halls (at $125/week including everything). And it's furnished, so there's no fuss. I'm glad to get the worry of finding a place to live off my back also. Now I can concentrate on my 3 assignments and exams.
Okay, the house was a bit dark and gloomy when we went over, so hopefully we can make it a more personalised, pleasant and homey place with our... decorations. I'm already planning. When I get back home, I gotta return with some posters, wall hangings and a table cloth. I'm also looking into getting a cheap couch or something for the dining room (or maybe a beanbag chair, they're pretty cool and cheap) and a table and chairs set for the outdoors (one thing we have over others is a huge ass backyard, lol. Since it's a house). Oh and a rug / carpet! Hmm... matching rug and tablecloth would be good for the dining room actually. It'll make it look more pretty since that's room's gonna be like the "communal" area since our house lacks a living room unfortunately (the main reason everyone's turned off by it).
We phoned the agent, and Sharon talked to her into letting us see the lease agreement first before paying the bond. As we don't want to randomly just give out money. The woman actually asked to pay today (Sunday) but that's just ridiculous. I don't even have enough money with me, lol. Yeah, went over to Farrer Hall for lunch with the group, and I baked / tried out the brownie mix for the MCAC cafe next year. Uhh... me, Amanda, Jia Chee, Sharon and Stan ate like half the cake, haha. I'll be bringing the rest over to GFN tomorrow to give to MCAC people who are there. The cake / brownies were nice but... it looked too ugly. Far too ugly to sell. Back to the drawing board for me. Gotta improve baking skills over the summer.
Went back to the room. Generally spent the time reading English Lit novel ("Northern Lights" the last book for the semester, I wanna finish it so I can at least go to ONE lecture that I actually understand what the hell the lecturer is saying). Jia Chee invited me over for dinner, so with some of my leftovers from yesterday, I had some yummy mushroom, cabbage, eggplants and prawns to go with my rice. *is so happy Jia Chee can cook* Ehehehe. On to finish Northern Lights!
Saturday, 6 October 2007
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!! @.@
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...
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!! @.@
Thursday, 4 October 2007
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.
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.
Wednesday, 3 October 2007
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.
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.
Tuesday, 2 October 2007
Diiiiee Assignments~
Aaaah, damn you EIL assignment. LOL. I dunno what to do. Currently I'm bitching to Raine about how much I dunno what to do. Since she's the only one who does the same thing as me.
I uhh.. got up at like 6:30 to try to do my assignment. And like I wanted to go for the free pancake breakfast thing every Tuesday as brunch... but the week I finally decide to go a bit early before my English Lit lecture for pancakes is the week they decide not to do it. Jonathan was as lost as I was so I spent my extra time having a chat with him before heading to class. After class, I ran back home and made pancakes for myself, lol. I wanted pancakes, dammit! They were nice. Haven't had pancakes in ages. Hopefully next week I get some free ones.
At 1 AM, Amanda, me and Jia Chee wanted to go house hunting. Amanda was lazy to walk so she suggested asking V to drive us. And he did! Yay, thanks V. Umm.. yeah. We went to the real estate agent and he told us to meet him at the house so he would let us in. And the second house at people there working on it already. So yeah, house number 1. A 5 bedroom house for $380 per week or something like that. It wasn't furnished. Damn, I forgot all about needing a furnished house when I was looking at homes. Oh dammit. This further reduces the choice of houses we have. The 5 bedroom house was decent, the bathroom was sort of old, but everything else was alright. But yeah, no furniture is just a no-no for me. Can't afford to buy tables, chairs, beds, washing machine and fridge... the fence was broken also in some places. And the weeds and stuff.
Second house... OMG, the second house was like 4 bedrooms for $300 per week. So it was a cheap house.. but ... NOT THAT CHEAP. The outside.. paint was all icky and coming off. The inside... wooden floors in some of the rooms. It just looked.... old. The inside wasn't as bad though, I must say. But yeah, the wooden floors. That turned me off completely, sorry people but no. And yeah, it wasn't furnished either. $300 isn't THAT cheap. I'm not paying to live in a house like that. My mom would never approve either.
So V drove us back. I was a bit disappointed that I forgot that most houses aren't furnished. Damn, another variable in my house hunting. Which is making it too hard. Cause like we NEED 4 bedrooms, furnished and preferably in Clayton. That just isn't gonna work, so gotta get ride of a variable. Like the fact that the house must be in Clayton.
Spent rest of the day on my EIL assignment. Made some mee hoon for dinner with spaghetti sauce, chilli and whatever else crap I could cook together. Overcooked the mee hoon so it turned into mush. T_T
Anyway, assignment time...
I uhh.. got up at like 6:30 to try to do my assignment. And like I wanted to go for the free pancake breakfast thing every Tuesday as brunch... but the week I finally decide to go a bit early before my English Lit lecture for pancakes is the week they decide not to do it. Jonathan was as lost as I was so I spent my extra time having a chat with him before heading to class. After class, I ran back home and made pancakes for myself, lol. I wanted pancakes, dammit! They were nice. Haven't had pancakes in ages. Hopefully next week I get some free ones.
At 1 AM, Amanda, me and Jia Chee wanted to go house hunting. Amanda was lazy to walk so she suggested asking V to drive us. And he did! Yay, thanks V. Umm.. yeah. We went to the real estate agent and he told us to meet him at the house so he would let us in. And the second house at people there working on it already. So yeah, house number 1. A 5 bedroom house for $380 per week or something like that. It wasn't furnished. Damn, I forgot all about needing a furnished house when I was looking at homes. Oh dammit. This further reduces the choice of houses we have. The 5 bedroom house was decent, the bathroom was sort of old, but everything else was alright. But yeah, no furniture is just a no-no for me. Can't afford to buy tables, chairs, beds, washing machine and fridge... the fence was broken also in some places. And the weeds and stuff.
Second house... OMG, the second house was like 4 bedrooms for $300 per week. So it was a cheap house.. but ... NOT THAT CHEAP. The outside.. paint was all icky and coming off. The inside... wooden floors in some of the rooms. It just looked.... old. The inside wasn't as bad though, I must say. But yeah, the wooden floors. That turned me off completely, sorry people but no. And yeah, it wasn't furnished either. $300 isn't THAT cheap. I'm not paying to live in a house like that. My mom would never approve either.
So V drove us back. I was a bit disappointed that I forgot that most houses aren't furnished. Damn, another variable in my house hunting. Which is making it too hard. Cause like we NEED 4 bedrooms, furnished and preferably in Clayton. That just isn't gonna work, so gotta get ride of a variable. Like the fact that the house must be in Clayton.
Spent rest of the day on my EIL assignment. Made some mee hoon for dinner with spaghetti sauce, chilli and whatever else crap I could cook together. Overcooked the mee hoon so it turned into mush. T_T
Anyway, assignment time...
Monday, 1 October 2007
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...).
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...).
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