The weekend FLEW by.

It was friday night just a while ago. Now it's almost 2am Sunday night. Time kind of jumped out the window and disappeared.

Friday night i made a short trip to the market with conie to get my supply of fruits and some vege for the week. For some strange reason we were both totally exhausted so we went home directly after that planning to sleep. But knowing us, and being a friday night- who sleeps at 10pm?? stayed up still quite late watching tv andbeing on the computer...

Saturday, i woke up and had brunch and i have no idea what else i did (i probably woke up quite late) but i had to catch a bus to the pharmacy for work. So i waited from 12pm to 12:35 for the bus to come (SO LONG! WTH!) and by the time i got to the pharmacy i only had about 10mins to look around for shoes at the nearby supermarket for my work on monday. ANyway, so i couldn't buy anything, but i started work at 1pm, and ended at 5.
I'm quite annoyed at the pharmacist. I'm there to gain PHARMACY work experience. NOT retail or shopkeeper work experience. So i was there doing things like vacuuming, mopping and restocking shelves. THat's what i did at Guardian Pharmacy in singapore, and in Malaysia. and i was being PAID for it. AND Even then i didnt have to MOP the floor (in spore) cuz that's the job of a JANITOR. And when it came to explaining pharmacy stuff- she rushed through everything and when i asked questions she replied in a tone that made me feel STUPID. as if it was the most obvious thing in the world- how can i not know.... SO. i was quite annoyed, but its my first day there so i dont want to say anything to her. Plus, i really need to get my work experience hours sorted out. And i can't find anywehre else to do it.
Hopefully she'll be more helpful next time, and if it really isn't working out for me i'lljust have to let he rknow ive got too many things going on and just... stop.
and try to get work experience somewhere else (conie... help... ^^;)

i got back in the evening and rested a while, and went to uni after dinner to study some pharmaceutics cuz i had no clue what was going on lectures. at least i feel a bit more educated right now.

Today i had a MySA Committee meeting which started at 1 and felt like it took up the entire day although we wereonly there for an hour and a half or so~ after the meeting i went to rundle mall to look for shoes (since i dind tget to buy any yesterday). Then i went home, dropped off stuff, and called mum. then later in the evening (i didnt do much in between. travel time, waiting for buses and looking for things took a long time) i went to play basketball with margaret, eli and conie. i got home after 8pm, had dinner, and watched lots of tv, and now its 2pm.
and my weekend's over!
fast right?
it was fast...

And I have a very hectic week to look forward to... wish me luck.
goodnight.

Serendipity

I haven't been updating regularly at all. I haven't been writing in my diary either. There's no record of anything at all since the time i arrived bacn in adelaide except the past little entries. I hate myself now for not writing anything. It seems like ive been back for an extremely long time, but its only been 3 weeks. 3 weeks isn't a long time is it? I guess depends on how you look at it.

Week 1 was just... empty. i did nothing i guess. it was a week of enjoying the cool weather, getting myself used to the adelaide life, appreciating silence and being alone. It's quite refreshing after living with my family for 3 months. But i miss being home. Apart from being around family, there's so much less to do at home. Especially since we were on holidays which gives more reason to not help out in house chores. :)
and the shopping... i never thought i'd get sick of it, but i had to do a bit too much. But that feeling of being sick of shopping only lasted a while, and now back in adelaide i feel like shopping again. haha. :)

Uni started in week to and the temperature skyrocketted to 37 degrees Celcius average. it hasn't gone down since and i'm waiting for wednesday when (fingers crossed) it will cool down to the low 30's. First week of uni was also Unilife Uweek, which is when clubs and associations get to promote themselves and get members. So i spent some time with that, and of course getting to classes and sorting out my timetable which is quite confusing this year with people going to practical classes on alternate weeks and stuff.. i can't just follow people anymore. hehe. At the end of the week, i spent some time meeting friends...

After that was an entire week of PANIC about planning a trip to Gold Coast, and the General Meeting for the malaysian students association scheduled for 14th March since our last committee meeting last year.
So there we were today at 12pm, after sitting through another meeting before uni started, and sending gazillions of emails over the week.. and there was 2 people sitting in the room waiting for the meeting to start. 2 people. at 12pm. for a meeting that was supposed to start at 12.
Thankfully, about 15 mins later more and more people came and started to fill up the room. Trust the malaysians to come on time... we finally started the meeting at 12:30pm and im proud to say, (aside from the late start, which was expected, so it wasnt too bad) it was a very successful meeting, and considering it's the first thing we (the new committee) organised we're very happy at how well it went. :) and i also spoke in front of a pretty reasonable sized group of strangers. it was quite satisfying. on top of that we managed to get 2 people who actually want to be on the committee to fill up the 2 vacant positions, and got a bunch of new members and i think some people are actually interested in the gold coast trip. maybe we can get 10 people (or more!) to go. hopefully... then we don't have to cancel it and we'll all have a good time.

o right, since i got back i also got myself a job at hungry jacks, found somewhere to do my pharmacy work experience (which im starting tomorrow), opened a new bank account, sold off last year's textbooks, met some new students, and heard about some juicy gossip stories... lol.

i think it's a pretty good start to the year. dont you think? :)

keep checking. i will update.

Finally, something to keep you all amused:

I just got back from singapore and i was alone. you can't blame me... ;)

p/s: i know this whole post has nothing to do with the blog title. I just watched the movie and i loved it, and serendipity is such a pretty word.

Holiday!

Today is Adelaide Cup Day so it's a public holiday. This country makes a horse racing day a public holiday. It's brilliant :)

So we took the chance to visit Madeline in the North to see where she lives and have lunch together. it's a friggin HOT day and we walked there. and waited forever for the bus to come to go back south. =.= But it was pretty fun... wandering around the city with friends. :)

Pictures...

Conie, me, Cheng Haw (chian ur's brother), Chian Ur and Madeline

Yes, i know i said pictureS with an S. but unfortunately my computer is being silly, and everything is lagging and it wont let me upload any more pictures.

SO too bad. later... or never...

have a good day.

Adelaide Bank Festival

Event name: "Northern Lights"

Ok, so they're not the 'Northern Lights' that i've heard about normally in the skies... but it's the most amazing display ever. They shone light on buildings and it looked like they're painted on!! (that was probably really bad english but i can't figure out how else to phrase it...)
Enjoy the pictures! (unfortunately, i took these with my phone camera, so its not the best quality...)


this looks like its been colored with highlighers... Same building, different design

The design on this building is on both sides! Not just the front!

Art gallery- you see those statues?? They're NOT REAL.
The next 3 pics are all of the same building... (i like the 2nd one... its neat)

This one is really simple, but because of that it works really well. and it looks real! kind of ugly colored though.

Another design for the double sided one...
THe other side of the same building. turns out the design is on 3 sides! Books on the side of the building...
I kinda liked this one.. i guess cuz of the colors.

OK, so i got home at about 1am after taking loads of pictures of buildings, hanging out along torrens river, and pancake kitchen and just doing nothing in all... and my brother left this on the table while he pretended to be asleep (he didnt sleep till like.. 3am later. -.-)

I still haven't figured out what happened to that coaster. He won't tell me.

Summer Holidays with Pictures

Nov 30th: Flew from Adelaide Airport to Changi airport Singapore.

Had a yummy lunch in JB the following day with my uncle's family.

the table looks pathetically empty but trust me the food was good. we had more food after that. i was too excited about the food to take more pics :P

Then we headed to KL, and the next morning, we flew to Cambodia.

With my family- of 17 people.

A week after that, we were back in KL and had a good BBQ dinner.

Then off to penang we go. We decided it was a good idea to practice some driving around the housing area since its been ages since my sis or i drove after we got our license. Unfortunately we got stopped by the police. I blame it on the bright yellow Jazz with a singaporean plate. and we didn't bring out our license! but the police was nice... after finding out we were malaysians. When i was driving home, we came across what looked like log lying across the road. We didn't remember it being there when we were heading out. Then when we got closer we realised it MOVED and it turned out to be a massive phyton.

Finally, it was time to go back to singapore.

Where we stayed in a service apartment called Somerset (the one in front)...However singapore time was cut short and before i knew it i was in malaysia again, this time in Kuantan, where all my cousins were, where we had a nice BBQ for christmas. Too bad i don't have a group picture.

One week later i found myself in singapore again....

for the Christmas decorations...

Fun...And friends...After 3 weeks in Singapore where i celebrated the New Year with my UWC friends, met my adelaide bestie, went ice skating, made nepalese dumplings, drank too much, and ate too much...

I headed off to KL with my sis.

KL changed a lot from what i remmeber it to be. well to be honest, i dont remember KL much at all. But the transport system was a lot better than i expected it to be. Met up with some Adelaide friends there and did some window shopping. My bag was too full because it was little and i had to go to Penang after that to do some work experience...

So this is the kitchen in my ahma's house in penang.During my first week in Penang was the Thaipusam celebration. I've never seen the celebration before so my aunt brought me out to see. I worked in Glad Hope Pharmacy for 2 weeks. Was quite bored... So i converted the pharmacy from this...To this...CNY Decorations! because CNY was near...

On my flight back from Penang i looked out of the window and saw what i believe heaven should look like... I went back to singapore because my bro was coming back on new year's eve and my mum thought it would be nice for the whole family to be together for the usual reunion dinner on the eve of new year. o yea, and we also moved into a new house so there was work to help out with. This is my family having steamboat for dinner on CNYeve.
The next morning we drove to Penang to visit relatives and do usual CNY things...

At my dad's high school annual reunion, i got to meet my dad's friends' kids whom we've got to know quite well over our once-a-year meetings.

Then it was off to Kuantan to see my grandpa, and visit the beloved Teluk Cempedak beach before we head back to Australia.

My last week i spent in Singapore meeting some other people i haven't had the chance to meet like Jennie, Jae, and Renet. It was a fun last week. I went shopping with mum, had a make-over (nothing big... just for fun. it was free :)), had lunches and dinners with friends, played pool, and had one of the funnest night out yet. And thanks to Wanda for letting me stay over at her place cuz my new home is quite far from the city...

Saturday 23rd Feb: My parents and Mjelva (thanks for coming!) sent me off at Changi Airport. I arrived in adelaide the following morning...

THE END!

back to spore tmrw

I'm Done with my work experience in malaysia! its now up to adelaide to get me the rest of the hours.
i had a good day today. nice way to end my 2 weeks of work. my last customer was a malay guy with pretty eyes. and he asked for something for 'mulut meletup' --> 'exploded mouth' ...turned out he meant mouth ulcers. i was amused :)

i wanted to write more but im lazy.

the end.

Random.

Did you know? if your right hand is slightly too far to the right, when you're trying to say 'Hi' it comes out as 'Jo' which kinda sounds like 'Yo' which makes you a lot more 'hip hop' than you really are....

I found some really strangely named stuff at the pharmacy:
there's this supplement that's called "Horny Goat Weed" and a flask that's called "happiness pot"
pharmacy... drugstore... aih.

i still haven't had penang asam laksa. ive tried a bunch of random things though. i never appreciated the range of food there is in penang. now i understand penang being the food haven. but i still want my asam laksa.

I was thinking about stuff. randomly, and i came up with a good reason for why people study business, science related stuff like engineering and medicine, media and communication stuf... etc. but then what about literature? why do people study that?