first week

i just finished my first week of uni and i'm alive! :) i guess since its my first week i really SHOULD be alive. lots of introductions and simple revision work. Plus there was no tutorials for chem and math which reduces my number of classes. All of that will happen next week though. and on top of that i already have homework now so i really should keep on top of my work :P

SO this weekend ill make sure i get whats going on in chem, make notes for bio, and finish bioprac homework which is quite a lot!

about knowing whats going on in chem... my lecturer doesnt really stop. she goes on and on even with questions, its like ok. heres an example and heres the answers. without even giving us some time to read through or try it... and whats worse is her voice. she mumbles sometimes and she speaks in this monotone voice...
at least we dont have 2 hour lectures for chem. we have 3 1hr session. but i don tknow if thats really better. it means we need to meet her 3 times a week.

Anyway im VERY glad i did bio in IB. At the rate they're going in lectures i wonder how the people who don't do bio understand whats going on. we had a 1 hr lecture today about cells and went through everything in a eukaryote cell, and he even managed to talk about ribosomes and the synthesis of protein from DNA... oh and we ended the lecture talking about mitochondrions and ADP+p= atp i mean, if u never did bio i dont think u'd know what atp is. i didnt know until we studied that in grd 12... and to think bio isnt a prerequisite for most courses. im glad we dont do much physics. thers some in chem but its just the gas laws and stuff which we did in class anyway.

I hate the lecture hall tables! so far we've used 3 different lecture halls. the one in the picture below is the best one. its all nice and new and colorful and the tables are good. in the other 2 halls, the tables are those on the side... and they KEEP ON FALLING! well, thankfully it hasnt happened to me yet (at least not during the lecture) but sometime in the middle of the lecture, without fail, at least a couple of people's tables would fall.. and everythign would fall... and the tables are so small! and in math say you want to have a calculator on the table, with the notes, and maybe some spare paper or something and thers just NO place. and i like to make my notes colorful and readible so i need many pens and thers no place for them on the table mainly cuz the table sorta leans forward a bit so everythignw ill just roll down and cannot write if my book is straight so i cant use my book to stop them rolling...
probably not making sense to you but whatever. the point is- the lecture hall tables suck and i like school tables so much better . you can put anything anywhere and it wont roll off or fall down and thers a lot more space!

aynway my comm tutorial has 12 people and thats nice. i thinkew have the oldest and youngest pharmacy student in the class. thers a guy whos 16 turning 17 this year, and a guy whos had another degree, and owns his own business already and just wants to study this for job security and all that. its weird.

I think i've rambled enough about school.

my housemate cooks. so i have lots to eat all the time... at the rate im eating i might put on weight even before winter starts! btw it was about 39degC today. it was hot. but i ate like a pig anyway. its horrible.

i need to learn how to make a good omelete. my omelette today ended up looking like scrambled eggs. tasted fine tho.
i need to learn a lot of things.

hmmph. its the weekend again. and i got no plans.
i should study. but i need to go out and have some fun. im bored. ive been bored for too long.

anyway today i met a malay girl in my bioprac class (she sat next to me). when we were going home i found out she lives in the same apartment as me. what a coincidence.. there were a couple of other malay girls in that class. and the one who lives in my apartment sat next to me. so i found another neighbour from malaysia.

ok enough rambling. back to work? no i think ill visit my friends if theyre in and chill abit then work.... :) but i WILL work this weekend. dont worry!

-Laurane

back to school

i start lectures tomorrow.
i'm freaking out although im sure theres nothing to be freaked out about.
i'm quite excited about bio and chem cuz i think i can cope.
but i was looking through the math stuff and thats making me very worried.
maybe its the bad experience with math in IB... and remembering how lost i was in every single lesson and how i failed every test. and what makes it worse is that im looking through the info we were given and i feel the same way- no idea what its all about (well not all) and i cant think.
shit.
i dont knw what to do.
wish me luck.

-Laurane

im at the library again. continuation of pictures :)

me and the kangaroo
me and koalas
Jan and I and the wine
the horse driven tram from granite island to the mainland at victor harbour
the room! the livingroom
the girls in chinatown with the bubbletea

:) i got too many pictures. so i only put some up. hope u enjoyed it.

-Laurane

for those who dont have facebook...

here are some adelaide pictures!! the lecture hall
the uni
the girls in my house
the beach and the guys... haha. 2.
the beach and me

more pictures coming another day.
library closing. bye!

before uni starts...

hello all!
i got 3 more days before uni starts. back to school... and back to using my brains. my brain hasnt been working very well these few days.
i forget everything like where im supposed to go and what im supposed to do when im out and all that. and i keep losing things. i went out of the house without taking my card (key) once but luckily my housemate had already arrived by then so i could get into the house... >< oh and i came back and looked for my the card and thought i lost it but then i found it somewhere on my very messy study table. im clearing up..., ive cleared up a few times arleady since i got here. its amazing how fast it gets messed up again!

I've been going around places in adelaide. victor harbour was okay except when we walked around granite island it felt like walking through a desert.... hot, dry, windy. it wasn't good. except that when walking through a desert you usually don't get to see water all around you and a magnificent view of a town... or do you?

Oh and happy chinese new year to those i havent wished yet! i forgot about that. it doesn't feel very chinese new year-sy here. some of us got together for a little steamboat for dinner on new years eve tho. oh ya and i also got an angpao from my friend's mum who was here.
on new years day i went to see the sunset at henley beach and had dinner there with alicia, jan, ben and ahamad.
on monday it was cheryl's birthday so we threw a party for her at my unit (cuz i was still living alone) we had about 15 girls in this little house... :)
on tuesday i was invited to have dinner at ben and adamad's house cuz they wanted us to try their cooking so i got dinner and a ride home in ben's nice red subaru car... haha. (i went with jan)
on weds i cooked dinner with my housemate who finally arrived! had pasta... not much cooking involved :P housemate's name is Wendy. she's msian chinese and studying in city west campus.
tonight i had pasta again- leftover from yesterday. with some broccoli for greens.
yesterday i went to Harbour town which i thought was a town, but i found out just the day before going that it was a shopping center. well so-called shopping center. its a couple of rows of shops ... it looks like an enclosed area but its open air... so we did some shoppiung and spent quite alot of time there. :) it took us about 50 mins to get there tho. and about an hour to get back! its a long bus ride... to the shopping center.

today i had to sort out some stuff like buying stationery and notebooks etc. so stayed home. but i still cant buy my textbooks cuz im waiting for my friend to tell me which books she wants to sell and compare prices and all that....

i had to buy safety glasses for practicals and since im wearing glasses i dont have a choice and need to get the bigger one. how glam.

so anyway. i guess thats enough of an update.
life has been interesting. :)

goodnight.

-Laurane

Greetings from Adelaide

:)
Adelaide has been good.
Orientation started this week. Monday- wednesday was a bunch of speeches and boring but some very useful stuff. Today i went to adelaide hills and Cleland wildlife park where i saw all the aussie animals and i think i said 'cute' too many times. Tomorrow we'll be going to victor harbour. should be interesting.

i'm still housemate-less and living alone. the girl who's supposed to be in my house is living upstairs cuz they couldnt find the key to her room and now shes doesnt want to move back cuz its too 'ma fan'. i sorta agree. anyway. i dont mind living alone. gotten quite used to it. But someone will be moving back in sometime before uni starts i think. her room is locked. and i was told shes lived here for a while now.

I've met too many people and became hi-bye friends with too many people and i dont actually have one friend i stick with yet... majority are malaysians and after being out of malaysia for such a long time i don't get along with them as well as the other msians.

i'm tired and not in the blogging mood.
pictures are up on facebook but when i have time i will go to the lib and upload pictures up here for those who dont haev facebook...

:)

goodnight.

23 hours

I'll be on a plane at this time tomorrow. how scary is that??

Anyway. My last few days in singapore had been pretty busy. But it's been lots of fun.

I went to chinatown with mum and sis to look at the CNY stuff since i won't be here for CNY... we also did a bit of shopping. i got a new bag and shorts :)

I finally got to watch not one, but two movies... 2 days in a row... (the last movie i watched was some time ago...) First was with dear Jennie on thursday night, and then on friday night with martina, mjelva and dom.

Met Martina again and surprised Mjelva cuz he had no clue she was going to be back :) then we played pool and watched Apocalypto (OMG that movie.... >< we thought we were all not going to sleep that night from nightmares...)

Saturday night my dad brought us to Harry's bar where some of his collegues were playing. dad said i could call dom and mjelva along so i did and they turned up. after harry's bar we went to this place called House of Blues where there was more good music from live performers. Then dad sent home mjelva (i finally got to see where he lives. he's got a rather overexcited dog :D )
and dom took a cab home from somewhere nearer home.

On Sunday i met up with marty, then we went to Chua Chu Kang where there's a mall called Lot 1 where we met dom and mjelva and played more pool. then we headed towards dom's house where his mom had prepared dinner. it was good. then we went to the night safari! that was fun. then we went back to dom's house and watched an episode of Family Guy, and we had dessert of apple crumble and ice cream (yummy!) then we played a round of uh. whats itscalled...... >< circle of death. yea. but with modified rules. then we went to bed.

Next morning (monday) i went from dom's house after breakfast to meet Wanda in SMU. we had lunch at the soup spoon and then she showed me around SMU. its a pretty nice place.
then i met jennie again also at SMU.

Yesterday i had lunch with Shobana then i went to this dodgy looking place around selegie road to collect my cheque for my work at guardian. it took me an hour to get it cuz it was all rather messed up and i got rather pissed off. but its finally sorted. so i'm happy.

Today i went to have lunch of char kuay teow and had tou fu fa at the market on farrer road. i'll miss those in aussieland... :( Then mum dropped me off at GWC so i could go to guardian and see my manager and get a reference thingie so if i ever need to find a part time job (most probably) then ill have proof that i have experience somewhere already! i also went to say bye and thanks cuz she was a sorta nice manager.

so that's my last few days. I believe this blog entry (like many others i have written) is boring u to death, so if uve survived and read up to here- thanks and congrats. haha. I'm in a blogging mood.
tomorrow i might go to botanic gardens. it's been a while since i last went there.
but i'm too lazy...

oh well. 1 more night in my beloved bed. :(

goodnight

-Laurane