Euthanasia

I euthanised my first animal today..
Pipper was a 16 year old German Sheperd.. 16 years old for this breed is really old!

It was a sad moment.. the dog , Pipper, belonged to an elderly couple. They declined to be with her during the process, and the old man started crying.. haih, so sad.. he quickly wiped his tears away before he left the room.

oh well.. I'm sure I'll put down more animals in the future. I pray that I won't ever take this as a routine.

stay tuned, will blog non-vet stuff soon! :)

Ellie

This is Ellie!! My first spey patient! I just found out that my colleague (Tim, the guy who took the photos in my previous post) took her back! I thought at first that they were just joking till I found these pics on his facebook! Don't know if he's keeping her for good.. will check with Tim when I meet him.. maybe Ellie's an unwanted dog.. hmm..

That's Tim.. checking out the stitches that I popped into Ellie.. you guys check it out too! haha, I'm so proud of myself that I'm showing it off here..

The weekend's here~!! Can get to rest a bit more.. and I'm looking forward to it. Reason for resting a bit more= I'm on call.. have to work half day tomorrow.
Can't go anywhere far though.. can't go back to Sydney, can't go to church for this weekend..
Oh well..

adious peeps!

The real world..

More like the real working world of my profession..

Started my very first day of internship on Monday.. which was hmm.. pretty hard to describe.
Fun, exciting, nervous, intimidating, tired..

It was pretty crazy on the first day itself.. my learning curve was like nearly 90 degrees, and I learnt so so so much.. and having a good memory of all that I've learnt for the past 4 years would be really really helpful as well!

We (See Yang and me) were asked to do a consultation on our very first day there! Thank goodness I had See Yang there with me, so it wasn't THAT bad.. yeah but still..
A consultation involves a simple introduction of yourself, obtaining history from the owner, and a physical examination.Our first patient for consultation was a Staffy (staffordshire bull terrier). His owner brought him in because of aggression problems... haha, thank GOD that he was really really friendly to the both of us. It went pretty well, for our very first consult! We get to do 90% of the consults that come in everyday.. So I'm pretty confident in doing a consult myself now! Did a few by myself today! You get to meet all types of funny and cute patients, as well as the different types of owners as well!

On Tuesday, I scrubbed in with the head of the clinic into a orthopaedic surgery to correct a german sheperd's hind leg. It was pretty exciting, as it was my first time watching a surgery in front of me eyes.. but it was tiring as well, as the surgery lasted for nearly 3 hours.. and I was just standing there, with my hands raised in front of me to maintain sterility. Well, I did help a tiny little bit, like flushing and sucking up blood.. lol

Next, to wednesday! We spend wednesdays at the spey clinic where we just spey and castrate animals all day long. I had my very first spey and castration! with some supervision of course.. The castration was on a german sheperd, and it was pretty easy and non invasive. The spey was on a dalmatian, and as a first timer, it wasn't easy to look for the uterus and the ovaries! But I guess it gets very easy after I get familiar with the abdominal organs.All went well, and it felt really good to see her recover back to her lively and bright self afterwards! I really do hope that there are no complications involved in her minor surgery!
Below is a pic of the spey and the patient:

The person looking at you is my anaesthetist, Suzanna ( a fellow student intern) and I'm right behind her, paying full attention on my patient.. The person in blue is See Yang, admiring my surgical skills.. and the person on the far left is my supervisor.

That's my patient recovering well from her surgery and the anaesthetics!

Cool aye? Yeah, definitely!!
But it's really tiring though, with the long hours and stuff.. I work from 8 to 5 pm, and till 6.30pm on tuesdays and thursdays. And I have to be on call every alternate day and weekend. When I'm on call, I have to return back to the clinic at 8pm for afterhours treatment, and yea.. if there are any emergencies (touch wood), I get called back to the clinic. And I also need to study at night after that, to make sure I know my stuff the next day, or to answer some quizzes that my supervisors give us.

Yeah, thats that.. It's not so bad now that I've got the hang of it! Yup.. Sorry if I sounded like I'm all over the place in this post.. there's just a lot of stuff to tell you guys about, and I'm feeling a bit tired as well.. and it's just 10.35 pm, gosh..

So yea.. Till then peeps! God bless ya!

Lap time : 9 days 6hrs 30 mins

In primary school , its time to bring board games and hand held nintendos..
In secondary school, you hear people shouting merdeka and mat rempits horning and rev-ing.. Some go play football, some go tiuk (cybercafe), some go lepak..
In uni, its time to sleep.. and maybe watch dvds..

well for me at least..
what about you guys?

p.s. haha, i'm not that boring.. we're having some mini party tonight in just for the housemates in the pink house.

The Final Lap

starts in 10 hours..

alright.. here we go!

think different, think HDs! ;)

Civic Type R

It has an ugly butt though.. could be better

The K20A which most Honda enthusiasts crave to swap into their cars..

*drools* How sexy is this ??

This baby goes on sale in the UK in March 07. Man, I hope Mr Honda Australia decides to bring this in.. I might just get one! haha, give me some time to earn the money..
Okay, I should be studying..
bye bye

Stuvac

is here!!! it's that time of the year again..
trying to wipe out all distractions.. arghh.. I must do well this sem!
can't wait till its over..

Went to my first auction today.. it was pretty cool! Things were going so so cheap as well! It's this car stereo specialist shop that decided to clear off a whole stack of their stock by auction.. and whoa, they have some pretty high end stuff going for real cheap!! Like 1/3 of the retail price!! Madness.. I dropped by to see if I could get myself a bargain.. but the stuff which I'm interested were in the later part of the auction, and I had to get to church then. Oh well.. I'll keep a good lookout for such auctions next time.. haha, although they rarely happen.

Oh, I wanna go to the Australian International Motor Show! Lets see if I can find the right time to go..

I so love the bridge to the new song, "Hosanna" by Brooke Fraser..
It goes like this :
Heal my heart and make it clean,
Open up my eyes to the things unseen,
Show me how to love like You, have loved me,
Break my heart for what break Yours,
Everything I am for Your kingdom's cause,
As I walk from earth into eternity..

man.. that's the cry of my heart..

The coming of an end..

The end of my days as a vet student is drawing near.. in about a months time, I'll transition from this :

to.. *jeng jeng jeng!* this!Thanks you , thanks you..
Internship is definitely gonna be a big stretch for me.. applying all the knowledge I've learnt since first year, which I doubt is still in my head.. Therefore, revisions would be a good idea to avoid scoldings from bad and evil vets who are supervising me..

Now I need to study for my finals which are coming up.. my final finals as a vet student. I need to end this with a bang!

Eight-legged intruder

Woke up this morning, and I saw this girl at the corner of my ceiling..

Now for an upclose view..Massive aye? Welcome to the country.. :)
This is like the 5th Spider I met in our house here in Camden..

A painful lesson..

Birthdays are days which your friends around you use to show their appreciation and love towards you..
That's one lesson I painfully learnt a few days before my birthday..

Here's the story.. My housemates decided to have a birthday dinner celebration thingy a couple of days earlier, cos I won't be around then (encounterfest). And on that day, I played touch(which involves a whole lot of running) at noon, and I decided to mow the lawn.. which took me the whole afternoon. We have a huge lawn.. remember? So yea, by evening, I'm already half dead..And all throughout the dinner, I was pretty much half dead, which affected the way I carried myself throughout the dinner.

The worst part was that when it was time for the cake, I asked them whether it was alright for them to bring it home instead, cos we were all very full.. Yeah, I know.. who would do that?? me.. sheesh..but hey I wouldn't normally do that, it's cause I'm quite close with my housemates, so I thought I should be frank with them. Big time bad move aye.. Right after that, the girls were pretty angry with me, but the guy was completely unaffected! which I find quite funny.. :) Yea, to cut things short, it was all sorted out in the end after some serious talks and apologies from my side.. and after feeling like the worst housemate/friend in the universe..

Celebrating the birthday of someone close to you is a real joy indeed and you'll definitely put in some effort passionately.. but celebrating the birthday of someone you don't know that well could be an obligation. That's so very true for me.. what about you guys? well, what I did was that I forgot to view it from the other side for my case for the first point..

Ok, sad stuff aside.. I spent my birthday at Encounterfest! which was indescribable! nothing beats encountering God man.. The day itself was pretty hot though, it was a max of 38 degrees! Social justice was fun! check out K-Lo's blog for more info on that! haha, am getting lazier by the day.. And for the album recording, Kudzi moved me to the very front row on the floor/the mosh pit! I couldn't believe that I could just put my hands on the stage to rest! I think you're gonna see plenty of me in the Dvd recording of the night! So make sure you get one when it's released! :) The mosh pit was insane in the last few songs, and I was squashed to the stage most of the time then. Haha, but it's fun!
This year's (including next year) project is gonna be crazy.. United is launching this thing called The I Heart Revolution.. They're gonna put together a cd from songs that are recorded live from different parts of the world! But there's more to just that.. it's about starting a revolution..

This is a pic of Encounterfest that I stole from Ashley.. I love the graffiti style !coolness..

okay on a side note.. I saw this on ebay..
*drools* I am so so tempted to buy it!!! Do you think belle would look good in that? it comes with door trims and the roof as well.. so basically her interior would be 80% in that colour! Bidding ends real soon.. arghh!!! help me!!

Lastly, thanks again to everyone for the birthday wishes and the presents!! Really appreciate it!

the secret place..

I've found a place,
caught in open arms..
Where Love's embrace,
mends a broken heart..
Here I will stay,
For all my days...

-Dean Usher-

Coming up..

Can't wait!!

The Road Trip

Argh, back to uni.. back to sticking my arm up the cow's arse.. back to getting cow shit splattered all over me..
At least this is my last day of cattle practicals.. next stop is sheep! which would be much better..

The road trip last week was hmm... nice? crazy?
I drove 2100+ kms, used 217 + litres of petrol, drove ~25-30 hours in 6 days.. Yeah, I'm quite proud of myself ... aren't you? We(the people in the front seats) saw at least 20 road kills on the way there, and roughly about the same number as well on the way back.. Man, I pity all those tourists who are like "Yay, we get to see wild kangaroos on the roads of Australia".. yeah.. it's more like bloody dead kangaroos lying everywhere.. I'm very thankful that I did not kill anything during my road trip.. well, I did kill lots and lots of insects..

This is how belle's number plate looked before the road trip.. (well more like after I clean it.. I don't go taking up close pics of belle's number plate for nothing..)This is after the road trip..
Why like that? Cos when belle is going at high speed, she just rams down every single insect that flies in her way.. and their mini guts will explode and make them stick to her. Her whole front is just covered with bugs of all types man.. What's best is that I can see every bug that hits the windscreen.. got sound effect somemore when they meet their fate. It's quite irritating though, cos they are pretty hard to clean up.

Ok ok, now to not so gross stuff.. We (Wenqi,Tania, Dong Xie and me) left on wednesday morning to Melbourne and dropped by Canberra for lunch, the floriade, and also to pick up another road trip homie, Carmen. These are some of the pics we took at Canberra.

The whole place is filled with flowers, especially tulips! Don't wanna bombard this blog with too many pics.. so the pics up here are the ones I've chosen for you to see ok ? Ok, after Canberra, we headed down to Melbourne.. When we reached melbourne, it took me a while to adjust myself to the roads there. The roads in/near the city looked pretty messy because both cars and trams share the same roads. Driving with trams can be cool.. but can be frustrating when you are stuck behind them. They are super slow!This is a pic that I took while I was in a traffic jam. Note the remains of a bug on the windscreen.. it's not bird shit ok?
Melbourne's nice.. it's a combination of Sydney and Adelaide. Food's good, and the cafe lifestyle is nice. Shopping's good as well, but it would be better if they have sales going on.. I'm a cheapo, :p
The top left pic is some cages with canaries hanging from a ceiling of a building called GPO. Think it's a shopping center.. it's suppose to be some kind of creative decoration.. I think.. no idea what it represents.. weird decoration ideas people have.. Bottom right is a pic of me and my sis. It was her birthday on that day.. and yea, you don't have to tell me that we look alike.. we get that too much.. The other 2 pics are creations from Coco Black, a famous chocolate cafe there. They have pretty rich stuff there, and you really need to order carefully!

We also went down for a drive to the Great Ocean Road. It was amazing.. it's like one of the best roads to drive in the world! The views along the way are absolutely breathtaking, although the driver (me) did not get to enjoy it as much as my passengers, but still from the driver's point of view, it's just super nice as well! Can't describe it.. you have to drive on the road yourself!
Below is a collage of some of the views that my passengers took from inside the car whilst I was busy driving..
We stopped by some spots along the way such as Erskine Falls, the 12 Apostles and the area around the Loch Ard Gorge. Below are some of the pics of these places :

And oh, we saw a wild echidna just beside one of the trails we were walking on.. check the movie out! It's not that clear/visible though.. but still! We were able to get close enough to catch it!


Phew, is this my longest post ever?! I think it is.. since I've packed so much into my mid semester break! Still, I'm too lazy to describe everything in detail ..
Alrightey, back to uni life now.. few more weeks left before the exams, then the rotations, then back home to Penang for a nice break!

Am mong mong

ngiau choo kong, wa lang chau kee choi ah kong..

Ok, for those who don't understand hokkien, the title means :
Very very, dark..

Why very very dark? Because lotsa places in NSW had blackouts yesterday night. .which lasted till today.. That's because the winds were very very strong, and it uprooted some trees which then decided to crash onto the powerlines..

That happened to a tree just like 20 metres down the road in front of my house.. which made my house am mong mong..

I'm weird, cos I sometimes find blackouts quite fun.. very exciting.. yea.. cos its am mong mong..

There are already some bushfires going on.. In spring!!! Can't imagine how summer would be like..somemore I'm staying near a high-risk area..or issit IN the area? no idea.. SMH says "Meanwhile a bushfire expert has warned Australia is on the brink of a horror bushfire season."
sigh...

Had an emo weekend indeed.. goo goo ga ga

yeah, if you don't know hokkien, you learnt a new word today..
am mong mong...

thanks rene for telling me about the ang! ;)

The holidays beckons..

Ahhhh... feeling quite free now! Sorry for the slow-mo update! Just finished my last assignment before my holidays.. It was a client handout sheet about ferrets.. Just thought I'll pop a picture of them up here before I clean up any traces of assignments in my laptop.Cute lil things aren't they?? I so wanna have one.. but can't really at the moment.. maybe next time hey?

Yup! Holidays are nearly here! Just 2 more days!! Really can't wait! Will be road-tripping down to Melbourne and stopping by Canberra for the Floriade on the way there. Should be fun aye? My very first road trip!! It's roughly about 9-10 hours drive, I think.. Haven't planned it out properly yet though..

2 more days of uni!! So many plans for the hols!
wheeeeeee.......

Treating Nemo..

Yeah.. for those who always ask me questions whether I learn about fish in my course.. Yes I do.. In fact, I'm learning about them now.. Becoming a fish vet can be quite fun , and *ka-ching* *ka-ching* well paid ! Besides, I'm really really interested in marine mammals and stuff.. who knows, I'll be a marine vet someday..

Why *ka-ching*? Well, some fishes are worth a LOT of money you see.. be it ornamental or aquaculture.. I learnt that a tuna fish.. yes, one tuna fish .. I don't know what type.. but it's those that they export to Japan for sushi, is worth a few thousand dollars!! The breeder would definitely be worried if he sees four or five of those tunas starting to swim funny.. and he calls the vet in.. and voila, the vet asks for a large sum of money.. smaller than what the breeder is about to lose la.. duh..

Had a fish practical yesterday... I learnt how to anaesthetise fish, and recover them back to normal.. Really amazing to see them konk out enough for you to do some procedures on them.. and then after a few minutes seeing them swimming around happily again! The other part of the prac involves dissecting barramundis.. Was so tempted to take some fillets back home to cook! such a waste.. but the barramundis weren't so fresh after all.. Do you know that a barramundi becomes a male after a certain age, and then swaps over to become a female at a later age? Now you know.. ho ho..

Ok ,I really need to study.. am having a 45% mid sem about ruminants on monday..
moo moo..

Tanggal 31

Tanggal 31
Bulan lapan lima tujuh
Merdeka ! Merdeka !
Tetaplah merdeka
Ia pasti menjadi sejarah

Tanggal 31
Bulan lapan lima tujuh
Hari yang mulia
Hari bahagia
Sambut dengan jiwa yang merdeka

Mari kita seluruh warga negara
Ramai-ramai menyambut hari merdeka
Merdeka!
Tiga satu bulan lapan lima puluh tujuh
Hari mulia negaraku merdeka.

Ini dia.. Lagu merdeka yang paling ku suka..
Aku mengambil kesempatan pada hari ini, hari negaraku mencapai kemerdekaan 49 tahun dahulu untuk menulis ( atau menaip?) dalam blog ini dalam bahasa melayu.. Sebenarnya, aku curi cadangan ini dari rakanku, Casko Tan.. Inspirasi dari "Edisi Istimewa Merdeka" beliau.. Terima kasih casko..

Aku tidak sangka aku begitu patriotik.. tapi aku memang patriotik sekarang.. 5 tahun dahulu, bila aku seorang pelajar di INTI college, Pulau Pinang, semangat patriotiku memang sangat minimum.. Tapi sekarang.. fuu yoh.. pencampaian yang agak bagus.. mungkin kerana aku sedang belajar di Australia sekarang.. hmm .. bukan mungkin, tapi memang kerana aku di sini!

Memang susah bagi aku untuk menjelaskan kepada saudara dan saudari.. mungkin kerana bahasa melayuku sudah karat.. karat kau kau.. tapi, aku akan cuba dengan sedaya upaya! minta maaf jika aku tidak jelas dalam penjelasanku.. Ya.. mataku terbuka kepada cara hidup orang Australia yang berbeza kepada cara hidup orang Malaysia.. Sini tiada mamak yang buka hingga awal-awal pagi.. sini barangnya agak mahal berbanding dengan barang di Malaysia.. makanan di sini juga tidak boleh berbanding dengan makanan di Malaysia.. Ya.. memang.. memang.. Mungkin juga kerana sekarang aku berada di negara asing.. kena "represent" sikit!

Kenapa aku tidak begitu patriotik sebelum aku meninggal Malaysia untuk belajar di sini? Aku pun tak pasti.. Tapi aku pasti semangat patriotik rakyat Malaysia agak rendah..Kebanyakan rakyat Australia memang semangat patriotik gila babi.. mungkin kerana rakyat mereka banyak terlibat dalam acara dunia.. seperti dalam Rugbi, Bola sepak, sukan komanwel, dan olympic juga! Wah, saya lihat dan dengar mereka menyanyi lagu kebangsaan mereka.. memang semangat gila babi !! Malaysia agak selekeh dalam acara sukan.. hmm badminton sahaja? Macam mana nak meningkatkan semangat patriotik rakyat Malaysia? hmm.. aku pun tak tau.. pada pendapat saya, "national service" yang baru diperkenalkan ini agak sukar untuk tujuan ini juga.. Macam nak menjolok semangat patriotik ini dalam mulut pelajar yang tidak bernasib baik kerana mereka dipilih secara rawak untuk menyertai program ini..

Dalam masa ku di Sydney, aku dapat mengenal beberapa kawan yang memanggil diri mereka rakyat Malaysia.. tetapi, apabila aku challen (mencabar la.. lu ingat aku tak tau perkataan ini?) mereka untuk menyanyi lagu kebangsaan kita, mereka hanya boleh menyanyi satu baris atau stanza.. haih.. macam ini panggil "malaysian"? haha.. maaf lah kepada rakanku yang membaca ini.. tapi memang benar lah.. betul tak? Apa yang lawak sangat juga ialah rakyat Singapura memang boleh menyanyi lagu kebangsaan mereka.. tetapi mereka tidak faham maksudnya langsung!! Ini kerana lagu kebangsaan mereka ditulis dalam bahasa melayu.. dan ya.. bahasa melayu mereka , memang buruk.. mereka tak tau langsung lah..

Ya, ya.. bahasa melayu aku memang buruk juga.. memang ada banyak kesalahan dalam karangan di atas.. ho ho..
sebelum aku berundur, aku ingin memohon maaf jika aku tersilap kata dalam ucapan aku di atas.. ho ho, macam karangan SPM ya?
Ho ho.. sampai sinilah coretan beta..

Engagement

I'm a bit slow.. but in case you still don't know, Joshua and Priscilla are engaged!
Yeah.. for more info and pics, do check out Andrew's blog (Priscilla's bro).

Both Josh and Pris played a HUGE role in my life since I got here in Sydney.. They're both like a brother ( I call Josh Abang Ratilal..) and a sister to me. I'm saying without a doubt that I wouldn't be who I am today if it weren't for their friendship, guidance, example, leadership, encouragement, and a whole heap of other stuff.. They make me feel happy by laughing at my corny jokes as well! It's not hard to make me happy..

I'm really excited for their engagement, and their wedding , which is a bout a year away.. They are one of the sweetest and cutest couple that I've met.. awww.. really!

Okay..I think it's time for me to start studying.. yeah.. start..
Stay tuned for the merdeka post!

Peace or Victory?

I wonder why asians love to flash the V sign when taking pictures.. Especially the japs.. No offence if you are a jap, or if you do it all the time.. but maybe you could tell me why you guys love it so much?

Well , the manga character up there isn't projecting the image of what I'm talking about.. but hey, you guys know what I mean yea? I was so tempted to put up so pics of people doing the V pose (with their faces pixelated of course..) but somehow decided not to go there..

But anyway, a few of these poses are alright.. with the right facial expression that is.. I somehow can't stand people with a stoned expression, or with sucked in lips (or partially) doing the V thing.. ugh.. Haha, and oh, let's not forget the double V with the "ain't I pretty/cute" look ! That's a real classic.. man oh man.. and guys who do this? let's not go there shall we? bulu roma berdiri lah..

*grins* Thats why I said I wasn't trying to flash out the V thingy in a pic in a previous post.. haha, even if I was, I did NOT show an improper expression.. haha, justified!

Yea, it's been a while since my previous entry.. Updates won't be as regular, as things are very much busier at this time of the sem.. so do accept my apologies.. but do stay tuned as well!

Cobbitty

There's a winery just down the road from my pink house.. in fact, I think it's about a 5 min stroll to get there! They are owned by the Cogno Brothers, and is called Cobbitty Wines.

We (my housemates and I) paid the winery a visit today, and found out that they have pretty cheap wine! Most of the stuff we saw ranged from as low as 3 dollars to 30 maybe? Too bad most of the wine we tasted were not that good.. probably thats why its so cheap.. but hey, I think they definitely have a few good to so-so ones.. so we'll probably visit them again soon! They have wine based liqueurs as well, which I would love to try next time..We bought a bottle or two each of the stuff we liked anyway.

Oh, I forgot to put this pic in my previous entry about my pink house.. This is my door :
If you don't know what that funny creature is, you need to watch more TV.. well maybe you can't find him much around in TV nowadays..
He's suppose to hold a gun anyway, not a spear.. But hey, a spear's good enough! Can sula any monsters.. Handmade somemore!

I'm still chilling around like I'm on vacation at the farms... not good.. I need to keep to my goal, last semester to try my best.. yea, it's late again.. bed time!
Till next time my homies..

I wanna be in Syd!

Argh.. why?
Because Sydney just had a hailstorm this afternoon..
Man, the pics look cool.. Sydney looks like London or something.. check them out!
The last pic was a pic of George Street.. with the UTS flag on the lamp post.. just to prove that the pics are authentic.. haha
Well, I took the pics from smh.com and there's also a video that a reader took that looks like a ice river..

Really look like snow right? Argh.. I wanna go back to white Sydney!! Oh well.. maybe next time..
Will post later.. housemate gonna watch chinese series without me..

The Simple Life..

This is my new pink house.. nice hor? You see the verandah? At first I was so happy.. I thought can sit there and minum kopi and enjoy the view of the alpacas in the paddock across the road.
But, the stupid pink fence thingy ( I have no idea how you call that thing) was blocking the view when I tried to simulate my future chilling sessions.. that stupid thing is pretty high.. clever designing man..

Okay, okay.. I shall now give you a tour of my pink house..First, this is the pic of the view that I was talking about just now..the alpaca paddock in front of my house :It's pretty hard to see the alpacas from this pic, so I tried zooming in on them. If you don't know what alpacas are, just google search man.. They are funky creatures with funky hairstyles.. seriously..Well, anyway yea.. I could always set up something in front of the verandah to chill in the warmer days ahead. It's pretty cold now.. hopefully winter ends real soon..Okay, now to the backyard of my pink house..
Got swing somemore.. look at the huge garden my pink house has.. The plants with the yellow flower marks the end border of the garden. It belongs to one of the uni's research facilities. On this picture's left is another part of the garden, which is much bigger than the one represented here..And on the right, is Belle's house.. the garage :
This pic is taken from the front of the house (& garage).. fulamak, huge right? The first window on your left belongs to my room.. And on the right of the garage, there are orange trees!
Sorry, I'm a bit of a jakun.. but good old penang does not have orange trees.. justified hey? But the oranges are super sour la.. very disappointing.. There was this farm that I went to for an attachment which had mandarin trees, with sweet mandarins ok? So syok, anytime wanna eat, just go pluck.. There's also an area to chop and store firewood just behind the garage.. Man.. just like the movies..

Yea, thats about it.. I hope you enjoyed the simple tour that I just gave you... if you happen to be in Sydney from now till December, do drop by for a chilling session alright?

Ready, seto, go!!

St Mike's

St Michael's College.. the gloomy grey building on City Road.. yeah, the place I've been staying for all my time here in Sydney.. 4 years!

Why did I stay there and not move elsewhere? Because I was happy there ? duh.. Okay okay.. I'll be specific..

1. Cheap rent. Rent is 150 AUD per week, including meals (except for lunch) and bills.. which is freaking cheap for Sydney standards. I don't have to pay rent when I'm back home in summer, and even if I don't fly home for summer, the rent is just 50 AUD a week without food!! That's even cheaper than backpackers hey? I've saved plenty these 4 years man..

2. Friends. Yeap.. I would say it's all thanks to Dota.. haha.. but not entirely la.. we play mahjong, football and other stuff as well.. But there's not many of the gang left in the college now.. which is a bit sad for those who are still there.. oh well..

3. Very good location

4. A enclosed area to park for free

5. It doesn't have dodgy traditions or rules like the other colleges do..

These positive points far outweigh all the other negative factors (some of which are listed below)

1. Old and gloomy looking. Dark corridors (save money!)

2. No telephone lines and internet (solved with wireless, :p)

3. Dodgy food at times.. ("MSG Nancy", eating the same food for 4 years.. go figure)

I'll still be back for the weekends, unless I can find a better place to bunk in on weekends.. any offers? Yea, so it's not that sad..

Okay, time for pics.. My old room, the view from the doorMy old room, the view from the opposite end

This pic was taken not long ago during a formal dinner with the Cardinal. Not everyone in the picture is from St Mikes, it's just the asians and the latinos. Oh yea, St Mike's is a like an asian college. The Father prefers asians to aussies.. racism? No idea.. he probably likes our culture more..

Meet MSG Nancy!

The not-so-complete group of friends (for the Dota gang, exclude the chick in the middle, the battle cry dude on yer right, and the half naked dude behind him). It's not so complete because Louis, our chinaman is not in the picture. Do note that I was about to open my thumb and middle finger out, and not make the peace sign.. I am NOT one of those "peace-ing" people. You'll understand later.This is Louis the chinaman, who's very very excited about Dota. I guess life wouldn't be the same in St Mike's without him, thats why I'm putting his pic up and mentioning a few things bout him, prob cos he was left out in the previous picture... He's not the typical chinaman as you can see, and we came up with this theory that he has Manchu or Mongol blood in him..

Ok.. I have a day off today, which is quite rare.. Will attempt to take pics of my new place and put it up in my next entry! Till then my homies!

Missing..

Whoa, its been nearly a week without internet.. need lotsa time to catch up with everything in the www world.. I think I'm addicted to the net..
Been spending the last few days moving, and settling down at my new home in Camden..

Just got the net connection at the new place as well.. and I think its about time I go to sleep as well.. This is just a short note to say that I'm still alive and kicking..

Watson's Bay!

Hey hey!
Went to Watson's Bay today with some friends from youth choir. It wasn't exactly the best day with the occasional drizzles/showers. But we still manage to have a fun time!

I could still remember the first and only time I came here with Mei Yun like 3 years ago.. We didn't really explore the place properly as we just hung around the jetty area for a short while (we took a ferry there).

But whoa, there was so much more to the place than just the nice jetty area! There's this area called the Gap Park or something just like a few minutes walk away from the jetty area. It's like a coastal walk thingy with some very nice lookout points..
These are some of the pics that I took today

I could just spend hours looking at the waves crashing itself against the rocks..

The picture above is the beautiful city that I live in from far.. Notice the harbour bridge on the right as well.. And the dark clouds looming above.. These were the peeps that came with me in my car :Man, Watson's Bay is really really nice.. and it's so near the city as well! About 20 - 30-ish minutes drive I would say? And parking is free too!! I'll definitely come up here some time when it's warmer to spend quiet times alone with my Dad, or bring that special someone along as well next time! haha.. Yea, I think you could just spend the whole day here just admiring the view man.. if the weather permits that is.. It's extremely windy up there, and windy conditions in winter is umm yea, self explanatory..

Just got back from Tika's "surprise" birthday party as well.. Tika, if you ever read this, just wanna wish you a happy birthday again, and thanks for the Prison Break dvds!

I'm getting sleepy.. I think I should post my entries during the day or something so that I can take my time instead of ending them in such a sudden way..5 more days of holidays!! arghh..