Yaaayy, first week over uni is done!!! Only have lectures this week so got to lightly familiarise myself with my units. Ironically, the Business units are by far more interesting than the IT units. In one Business unit is Quantitive Analysis and Finance which is almost pure maths, so I gotta keep up with that, although it's not that hard. The other one is my Advertising unit, which was so awesome to attend! The lecturer was so informational, and I loved all the theory involved in the unit. In my IT unit was Professional Studies and System Architecture. The Professional Studies unit is all about management which was vaguely interesting, but would probably prove to be more appealing and useful later. On the other hand System Architecture was so tragically boring, and the lecturer wasn't very good at addressing the content to the class, that I ended up skipping half the lecture early and going home. Ahhh, skipping class already...better not make that a habit XP
Apart from uni some other changes has taken place at home. I got a new bed ($70 from Amart yo!!), new mattress, bit of shelving to fill the gap in my room (I used to have a double bed), and overall cleaned up. Well, the cleaning part is still happening. Oh and new computer coming soon of course. Really gotta clean up the room though, it's giving me no incentive to study since I know I've got to get it out of the way, but if I keep procrastinating like this study will never happen.
On the same note, better get my cosplay costume on the go soon. Oh yea, I heard Melbourne is having its first Supanova convention??? So envious, our conventions are only ever tiny in proportion to Brisbane.
Well, that seems like it for the first week. Just gotta get some cleaning out of the way and study underway. Laterz~ ^____^
Zomg uni soon!! Had my orientation week on Tuesday and Wednesday for Business. There was a bit of a mixup where the Business and IT orientation seminars were at the same time on the same day, so I ended up going to the Business one. There were met up with a few Grammar school friends. The seminar was ssssssoooooooooooooo booooorrrinnnnggg zZzZzZz....... But at least Advertising (my Business major) seems quite interesting.
I've also been job-hunting and giving out resumes in hope of getting a job quite soon. It's so nervous (I thought), amd quite despairing waiting for some form of correspondence. But I do want a better paying job now that I'm starting to buy more things, like uni books, OH I got an awesome new computer =P (should be getting it at the end of this week can't wait!!!), a new printer, a new bed (because my old one is a double and takes up too much room) and suchlike.
Hmm....that seems like it for now..nothing really new happening, except first uni class next Monday!! Ganbare to everyone at uni and school *\(^_^)/*
In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him. ~Dereke Bruce There is something about the presence of a cat... that seems to take the bite out of being alone. ~Louis J. Camuti
After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference. ~Charlotte Gray
The reason cats climb is so that they can look down on almost every other animal - it's also the reason they hate birds. ~K.C. Buffington
Kittens are born with their eyes shut. They open them in about six days, take a look around, then close them again for the better part of their lives. ~Stephen Baker
If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up. ~J.A. McIntosh
No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch. ~Leo Dworken
Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later. ~Mary Bly
My cat speaks sign language with her tail. ~Robert A. Stern
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. ~Terry Pratchett
People that hate cats will come back as mice in their next life. ~Faith Resnick
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. ~Albert Einstein
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. ~Monica Edwards
When your kitty purrs to you, doesn't it break your heart that you can't purr back? ~Candea Core-Starke
Sometimes he curls up on my pillow during the night and I don't know he's there until I yawn and my mouth closes on a whisker. ~Astrid Alauda
A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
Dogs have owners, cats have staff. ~Author Unknown
Even overweight, cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. ~John Weitz
A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it. ~Henry David Thoreau
If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. ~Alfred North Whitehead
Cats have an infallible understanding of total concentration - and get between you and it. ~Arthur Bridges
The cat was created when the lion sneezed. ~Arabian Proverb (weird proverb...?)
There is no snooze button on a cat that wants breakfast. ~Unknown
It seems like everyone was learning how to drive, or already know how to drive, so I thought I might join in too. Although it's complicated with lots of multi-tasking involved, learning how to drive is actually quite fun!!
My first lesson was in a near-empty carpark, and just learning how to get the car moving, doing some reverses, and laps around the carpark, so pretty easy. HOWEVER!!! The second lesson was on a near-deserted street which was kinda sloped, whereas the carpark was perfectly level ground. And apart from doing laps around the street and the little roundabout at the end, I learnt how to change gear into second and third (evidently I am learning manual), and U-turns and 3 point turns. I must say, it was a very very very stressful time, doing U-turns, especially because I still have lots of trouble with letting go of the clutch and putting acceleration on. Haha and too much Initial D has given me a lot of bad habits ^^""" I stalled a LOT during this lesson, but the worse part of the lesson was when I was driving back up from the roundabout, changing gears from third back to second to go around the corner of the street, where I stuffed it up and stalled. Then after stalling for another seven or so times, I still couldn't get the car started. It was around that time when I was told my lesson had ended and the instructor took over x_X
It wasn't until the instructor got the car started that I realised we were on a hill = needed more acceleration to get the car started. It was so stressful that I was sweating just sitting in the car while I was driving. Hahah but it was super fun when I could go round corners really fast, although that earned me a hard look =P
I want to apologise for not being online a lot these holidays, it's because since my mum has gone back to America/Hong Kong with my sister, I've got the house to myself, and I usually sleep downstairs since I've got the whole lounge to myself.
At first holidays was pretty awesome, just go out and play and stuff, but then I got sick on New Years, and have been sick for all of January, so it's mostly been staying in the house and resting.
Talking about me being sick, so stupid: I woke up one morning with a really sore throat, and after a day or two I went to see the doctor since it wasn't getting better, and he was like "ok, I THINK you have tonsilitus, so take this medicine, and if you aren't getting better, see me in a week, and we'll do some blood tests to see if it's glandular fever." And one day in the next week, I started getting really bad stomach pains and I went to hospital, where it turns out i had GLANDULAR FEVER and it was near critical cos the medicine prescribed to me didn't act against glandular fever. So because of a lazy shitty doctor, I had a sore throat for a week and couldn't eat or even drink water cos my throat hurt so much and spent three days in hospital.
But the funny thing is, once February swung by, I was completely better!!! Completely healed!!! Go figure....weird.
Oh yea, I had a pretty awesome birthday party. It was already awesome because it's the first birthday I've spent in Australia with my friends; usually I'm in HK and spend it with family and relatives. Anyway, first my friends and I met up in the city, bummed around, took sticky photos, played in the arcade, then we went back to my place for pizza and drinks. Haha we played lots of silly games like charade, and some drinking games and suchies.
At the start of the holidays I did this short hospitality course so I've been looking for a job, but no luck so far. This one place said I could do a test trial, and then on the day a few hours before they called up and said they didn't need me anymore!!! Y_______Y *sigh* rejection hurts........
Oh and of course, I decided to stay in Brisbane for uni and now I'll be study a double degree of Bachelor of Business&IT. I was really happy I was accepted into Melbourne, but before I accepted, I was really nervous about the degree down there, and if I could cope with lots of hard work as well as living by myself. So in the end I thought if I really wanted to go study down there, or anywhere, I could always transfer in my second or third year. All the best of luck to Albie, I'm really impressed that you went to America, whereas I'm still too scared too leave home yet, but I believe I'll be able to do the same sometime.
Hmmm.....that's probably all for my holidays; I've still got another month or so until I start school so I'll keep the posts coming. Thanks for dropping by everyone ^___^
Hahahah, haven't touched my blog for a year, for shame. Well fellow bloggers, I am rejoining the blogosphere (as Del so elegantly puts it). Took me a while to do because I wanted a new blogskin and it took me ages to find it, but this one is pretty kool :P
Anyway, this year will bgring more posts. Good luck to everyone reading this for 2008. For Del and Lina who just came back from TW, Albie who's in America this year, Kura who's still in school, Ray... cos no one else will say this to him, and Ron, Jess and Cindy since I'm naming all the Perth people, Panda and Koala who should be first year uni as well, all the TW people we know, Vongie in Melb, Bryan in Syd, and all my Brisbane friends who probably won't read this anyway. HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL YEAR IN 2008!!!!!!! ^_______^
And that's it for a first post, I'll update my holidays soon.
