Monday, March 21, 2005

Life - n. pl. lives (lvz)

The usual day of my life.
Life - n. pl. lives (lvz)

Define life:
Life is awake at
0700 wake up, follow with ironing,
0720 breakfast
0745 shower and get ready to work
0800 leave home
0810 still in the jam
0815 on freeway
0820 reach office, make hot drinks
0830 start working
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1630 check time (realize still 30min to go)
1645 deciding whether I should start packing or do more work?
1655 check time (5min to go)
1700 Time to go but always got last minute stuff
1720 in car, leaving office
1735 reach home
1740 scold brother if he is on computer game
1755 wash up and ready to study
1800 still not study yet…
1810 really studying but trying to thinking what I should eat for dinner
1820 still thinking about dinner
1840 decide to cook dinner at 1930
1900 felt hungry, telling myself still 30min to go
1930 cooking, get angry because no one help cooking
1935 start cooking and chopping
2000 forget cook rice
2010 almost ready for dinner
2030 dinner serve
2045 washing and cleaning
2100 back to study
2110 go toilet… pee
2130 still reading
2145 almost falling asleep
2200 do tutorial
2230 pack up before sleeping
2245 sleeping
2246 still trying to sleep
… dunno when I fall asleep

This is my life...!

Friday, March 04, 2005

Dunno what I up to... but definately I do the right thing...

Dunno what I up to, but I think it definitely I do the right thing. I decided to do my study again. I want to do the professional paper, but I was not qualified to do so because during my uni day, I didn’t do some subjects which required admit to this CPA. Well, at that time, I wasn’t thinking that much what I am doing, what I want is to finish my uni and get myself start working. So, it doesn’t really matter what subject I take, as long as I graduate as BCom, that’s enough. Now, I really guilty for this steps, but is not too late yet. So, doing my external study at USQ on Graduate Certificate of Commerce.

There are 5 subjects that I need to finish before I qualified myself to CPA program, yah… how sad but I only have one goal to achieve this year, that is CPA program. I really looking forward to finish this GCCom, so hopefully I can get entry to next year enrolment.

This semester just 2 subjects, I don’t how stress going to be and these subjects really motivate me so hard that I just got to study every time I comes back from work. Beside baby sitting my brother Jason, I trying to have 3 – 4 hours of study every day except Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday. University required 20 hours per week per subjects for study, and I only have 16 hours per week… for 2 subjects. So, got to really study to fulfil my dream.

I was talking about baby sitting, yah, Jason is my 2nd youngest brother. He is study Mech Eng at UQ. He was so blur because he only arrived a night before his classes start on Monday. So, I was actually stress out for trying to explain how he get himself to uni, transport system at Brisbane, how the uni like, classes, tutorial, sign on classes, arrangement of timetable, where to eat, where to rest, where to bank, how to open bank account, how to make friends…. The list goes on and on…

Thank God that he is coping well with all my speeding train explanation. There are some parts that he did make mistake, but I guess this is just part of learning. For example, just that day, he actually walking back from indooroopilly bus station. He forgotten that if the bus can pick him up from the nearest bus stop, means he could just take the bus to the nearest bus stop… hai… And about text book, he just spent $400.00, gosh… it is expensive. He just buy all those book that mention in the course outline without checking whether the book is compulsory or reference only. So, end up he had a huge lesson from me. Yah… he did return some book and those books are reference. He could just make his reference at library, isn’t this how it is like if you are poor uni student?

I hope he will made himself proud as well as myself for able to finish his study and get himself BEng and qualified to Engineers Australia or Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers Australia

Thursday, January 20, 2005

After Holiday

After 3 weeks of holiday, I came back with fully recharge battery. Felt like a brand new beginning as I step myself in to Australia ground again. Felt so full of strength and power, that I am prepare to do all things.

Unfortunately, I am wrong. Oppss..! may be I am partly right. Today is 4th day since I back to Australia. Working has been really satisfied, because I able to catch all my work in just few days and of course it is good to catch up with friends who I have been seeing for 3 weeks, especially those we almost see each other, 3 weeks was a long time to pass.

So, now I am back, started my usual life again. Slowly there are many things to consider. Thinking about moving house, so now just busy looking for house. Taking my lunch break, trying to reach toowong in 10min to pick up Daniel for viewing the potential house. Beside that, I have to worry about my PR application and still awaiting my director for sponsorship. Church life not start yet, but can feel the pressure already, and also was busy with my brother tertiary education application at UQ. Finally today hand in his application, that really lighten my burden lots.

Well, whatever I can think off, all put in words already… but really hope that I have strength to continue press on this pressure… yes… pressure because I just wanna to get over it and all these required 100% concentration. If slightly side track…I may be pick and to be judge for not putting my effort…

Definitely need strength….

Friday, December 17, 2004

Recipe



How to make a Alvin
Ingredients:

1 part competetiveness

5 parts humour

5 parts energy
Method:
Stir together in a glass tumbler with a salted rim. Add a little cocktail umbrella and a dash of curiosity

Thursday, December 16, 2004

7 sleeps left...

Just another 7 sleeps, I am flying off back to Penang. I can’t explain how excited I am because this trip is so different. Since my grandma passed away, my family hardly see each other. We used to see each other at least once or twice a week, as now, probably not even once a month.

Although they do not contact me as frequently as my housemate family do, I still love my family. My parents hardly talks to me, can’t blame for their work and busy all the time. Sometime, I still prefer talking on phone rather then just type on screen in MSN windows. Be honest, I missed them so much.

My cousin, somehow they are excited too for the day when I touch down. If you ask me why few years ago why they excited, I really can’t tell. But if you ask me now… may be there is a answer for this.

I think I have been heritance of my grandma genes, she was that kind of person who love her family so much. No matter what cost her, she will try to make her family well. She was a tough, strong and committed lady. I think I have that beside the “lady” part of it. I remembered every time when I at home – Penang, my cousin likes to sit around me and listening to my old time stories. I will tell them like what grandpa did, the old time story. Well, is not bring story because it is a true story. I told them how grandma used to treat us, taking care of us… litter things like accompany her for morning jogging to wet market shopping. I think not just they like to listen, but I like to tell them the story… mainly because I would like to made them know that life is tough, if grandma could make that far… so do we.

Yup! Just another 7 sleeps away… I am so looking forward for the day that I am being fetched to airport. I missed home…

Tuesday, November 30, 2004

49th Week

Looking at my calendar, gosh, it is week 49, and there just 5 weeks to go. I am so excited about this holiday, mainly because I am going back for holiday.

 

Christmas

My family don’t celebrate Christmas, because there are not Christian and they are not ang mo. So, Christmas was not a big deal for us, but I am excited because every year, we celebrate Family Day on Christmas. Family Day in my family, is a big thing, probably I would say bigger then we celebrate Chinese new year. Family Day became so important to us ever since my Grandma passed away, last May 04. She was the one who started this event. I remember my cousin who is the chairman for Family Day 2004 told me that, everyone (my family members) were looking forward to this event. All my relative, whoever are currently overseas already arranged themselves for this holiday. So, without doubts, I am excited and looking forward to meet them again.

 

Medical Checkout 

Talking about PR application, today was my final medical checkout. It was the early appointment, just couple of people at the waiting room when Daniel and I arrived. After registered ourselves, Daniel was first in the queue. After I was tested on my urine and eye, I was called into the doctor’s room.

 

Surprisingly the doctor was from Penang (my hometown), he was born there and now he is working in HSA. Well, he is ang mo by the way. So, it really shocked me. Anyway, I was sitting on the bed awaiting for checkout, doctor said that my blood pressure is too high. He make jokes that I was too busy with work, because my phone rang before I enter to his room. He was saying that I should get away sometime, so that I can relax. Anyway, he told that he will get another blood pressure measurement later if I could just relax and rest myself on that bed. Ha! It was cool on that bed, the a/c was blowing on me and I was actually only with my undies. My mind telling myself “relax, relax… you don’t want to have a high blood pressure, aren’t you?” Finally, I passed the medical checkout.

 

This was incredible experience because I just know that if we under pressure, our blood pressure will just shoot up like no body business. I am taking the doctor advice, he left the bed during the checkout and pinch my fat said, “ you should thinking about losing these…” I really felt guilty about it. So, from today, I will TRYING to do exercise…