Well, somewhat relocated.

 

I will be mainly blogging at WordPress.

 

 

 

It's been a while since I typed here.

Uni life is well, busy enough to discourage me from blogging, but not enough to stop me from watching anime. (This is bad, I need to find a cure to my anime addiction. A cure, maybe something like the Philosopher's Stone - ah yes, that'll definitely help. I'll create an alchemical array and... NO!!!

=_=" I need help.)

Anyway, it's been a while in Australia now. I am not in the mood to type much.  Just here to put up some pictures. For my beloved family back at home
to see.

 

*stv: I hope you see this. I must commend you of your perseverance. Never have I met such a frequent and lasting blogger. You win. o_o"

 Well, that's all folks. =)

 

 

I haven’t been writing a log for a long time, and I haven’t been doing “academic” activities for more than 4 months now. And this could contribute to my poorly written blog. Heck, when was my blog not poorly written???

Uh… one more thing: do excuse the harsh words used. I’m under the influence of the many people I met in a camp. They swear, and they enjoy it.

ISS Narrabeen: Orientation Getaway

After busying for a week on orientation, international students get to go for a trip - the orientation getaway.
I’d love to record the happenings, but my vocabulary limits me from describing them properly. The intensity is so great, I didn’t know how to start. We learned about dancing, about Australia and its culture, about rope climbing, krav maga and many other things. Crazy things happened: I slept under a palm-sized spider for 2 nights, we’ve watched how male spiders are eaten after mating, we walked on cables 15 m from the ground, we’ve played on the Warriwood beach, etc.

But the best of all was that we’ve got a kickstart in knowing friends from all over. Friends like Endre from Hungary, Okko from German, Augustian from Indonesia, Mai from Japan, Jun Mo from Korea, Koonal from Philipine, Oliva from Singapore, Kerry from USA, Mark from Netherlands, Matthew from Canada, Hussein from Kenya,… and the list just won’t stop.

And I’ve even learned how to make origami cranes too! Credits to Mai, my sensei. Doumo arigato gozaimazu. =)

I hate to go about typing on how many weeks have passed without a good sleep. And I am tired. So I’ll stop. Nite.

Lilboy out.

Maths exam aftermath:

After countless hours of loitering, travelling, working, PS2'ing...

I think I've screwed up the paper.

There isn't much to talk about. I just wanted to remind myself that I've screwed my maths paper.


So how did this happened?

I had a week of break, hadn't I?

Well...

It was Wednesday, after screwing my Eng paper, I vowed to study hard so that I would make up for the loss in my coming maths paper.

Thursday

- downloading GTO : boy it's hard to get the scanlations online.
I've found them on baka-ost.org anyway~
- very entertaining. I think I'm going to buy the anime dvd as well.
-and I realised that it's already night. Good night.

Friday

- went to help my mum in shop.
- busy day -and I realised that it's already night. Good night.

Saturday

- in shop again. Great business. Have I ever mentioned that my mom's a chinese physician?
Great business = More people getting sick.
- Chenko called later. Went swimming at Bukit Jalil. Then go carefour.
- Chenko bought a some PS2 games. "Rumbling Roses", "Viewtiful Joe", "Worms", "Narumett Hero 2", etc.
- Apang and I spent the evening testing all these games.
- The result :

1. Worm lags, despite it's humour content.


2. Rumbling Roses had no interesting gameplay.


3. Narumett Hero is fun, but is bound to spoil the gamepad.


4. Viewtiful Joe is viewtiful, nothing more.

- and I realised that it's already night. Good night.

Sunday

- my mom's on holiday!!!
- so I went to my mom2's house. I suggested that we go Genting Highlands. All agreed. We went.
- Went playing pool with my cousin, Apang at FirstWorld. The first ball scored by him, was a black. Same goes for the second game and the third game, except that it was me who scored them...
- Aman, and Alin came later. I took them to McDonald's. It's rather crowded due to the Hari Raya Festival. We had to sit by the stairs to eat our burgers.
- Took them to bowling later. Reluctant to cut off his 5cm nails, Apang can't play, and went to arcade.
- Bowling was fun, and three of us hardly scored. The balls keep going down the side rails.
- Then went to arcade. Played DDR, and PPP2. Virtua On, DDR and PPP2 machines were added, though some are damaged.
- Went for baskin robins at 5pm.
- go mum2's house. Ordered pizza for dinner.
- Ordered for 6 people, when there's more than ten of us around.
- Yet when the pizza arrived, all peopl gone. So those who are left got a larger share.
-and I realised that it's already night. Good night.

Monday

- went to help my mum guide spirits out of our new house.
- I printed 5 pieces of notice for the spirits, and bugs, etc. Wonder if they read chinese? What about spirits who are English-educated?
- I joined in the chanting later anyway. I couldn't read chinese well, so I had difficulty in keeping up with the tempo. I'm glad though, that I could cover almost half of the "da pei zhou". Thanks to my grandma, who was always chanting it when I was young. Seemed to have got stuck in my head.
- Done with that, me and mum goes to pick Alin, Aman, and Apang for dinner. Their parents, it seem, weren't satisfied with the casino's game the day before.
-and I realised that it's already night. Good night.

Tuesday and Wednesday

- darn... my memory went blank. what happened in these two days???
- I must have been kidnapped by ufo or something...
- downloaded gto to volume 18. Seeking for Volume 19 ++
Hard search man... No luck so far.
-and I realised that it's already night. Good night.



So where was the study part??? Nope. Not found.

Today

- nothing much happened.
- My test was on 2pm, so I was playing Narumett Hero in the morning.
- Later went in to exam hall valiantly. Went out the hall later, in shock and horrified. The paper was totally different from the trials.
- spent the next hour trying to get over it.


And now here I am... typing this thing.

Since I got no Narumetto Hero 2. I spent an hour releasing kyuubi on Sasuke. Guess I must have hated him pretty bad.

Maybe it's just the story that I hate.

Anyway - chase is over now. And back to the storyline...


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No, maybe not. I'm not here for this. I was supposed to record about what happened in my final exam.

Record begins :

28 Oct 2004 AD

Since I was rushing my long-procrastinated essay, I figured that there is no time for me to prepare for my finals.

And so I went unprepared.

For you nerds who always score out there: try not prepare for exams - you'll experience a great thrill.

And that's what I've experienced. While all others are nervous and studying feverishly outside the exam hall, I find myself laying around...
I felt liberated...from the necessity to score in exams...

And obviously I couldn't do the papers...


This especially refers to Physics: I've never understood my lessons beginning from the time a new replacement teacher came.


While on other papers, I find them surprisingly easy.

For example, I always struggle with my Academic English, barely able to finish my paper within the time limit. Yet, this time I finished my paper half an hour before it ends.

Same goes for Maths and Chemistry, which I've finished an hour before it ends. (Physics too, but I didn't answer most of them so...)

And instead of studying when I get home, I find myself playing simcity 4000. (Hurray I've got 40 k population in my region!!!)


This leads me to think, is it because I'm unstressed?
Maybe stress really kills.

Anyway - test is over, and still I feel no test mood.


Nevertheless, I am thankful that this is just my internal final exam.

Real test is coming on... I'm not sure when... but it's near...

I think it's next two weeks.


Many plans have lined up after my final exam: not sure if there's enough time though... =_="


Am writing this down anyway. Felt that I need to practice a bit of writing; haven't been writing since times forgotten.


For now, I'll just relax.


Man, I'm one cool cucumber...

if you are are unfamiliar with me.


Okay, I don't expect people comply.

Conformity only works in humans when they know their being watched, otherwise...

Nevermind...


On with other stuff...

Been gobbling up lots of text in the library this week. More than usual.
I guessed I wanted to reduce my time on the computer, due to eye-strain.

Religions, Ethics, Social Psychology, Media, Child Development....

Great, I'm finding the joy of reading once again.

Ah... the pleasures of the great book bliss...

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Apart from that, I've got into a new argument with my friend:

"It is time to stop meat-eating among us."

I was the proponent (though he started this topic).

We went on arguing about lots of points, and frankly, he doesn't believe that animals feel fear and pain when they're slaughtered the halal way.

He further quoted from a site which shows an experiment that proves this. An experiment which I believe is faulty, inaccurate and biased.
(I won't elaborate on this. If you want to know more,
go google for "halal slaughter animal eeg".)

(For your info he's a religious Muslim. Quite the person you would call a nice guy.)

He later argued that God has created all animals for the benefit of mankind, and that those animals would be glad o serve Allah.
Which of course, squeeze out the sarcasm in me : "What? Glad to have it's chopped pieces lie on your dish plate?"

Maybe I'm a lil too... *ahem*

Nevertheless, I admit that I've been quite a sceptic recently. Rarely believing in anything. However, if I weren't this way, I still doubt it will convince me.


And nope, I am not degrading any religion. Islam is a great religion on it's own, regardless of what the media might portray.

I'm just in the mood to scrutinize beliefs to the very last bit.

It's really puzzling. Why do people have such strong faith in their religion?


What is the basis for their beliefs?
Why are they so darn convinced that the Bible/Quran or any other guide from God is true???


Of course, I am examining my own beliefs as well.
It's time to get rid of myths, and salvage the wisdom.


As for the questions...

remain mysteries we may yet be able to solve...


As for that friend of mine...

despite pointing out those which I believe is flawed, he remained convinced that he is corect. I doubt that this has anything to do with superiority complex, since it's the same for many of my other friends with other religions.


Now that I think about it, I might get caught by authorities for discussing about sensitive issues such as religion.

If you don't see me blog again, or if my style is abnormally different...

you know that I'm no more... ^^;

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I'm sure people will find it weird that I'm still blogging although my exams so close.

The reason for this bizarre behavior : I forgot the date of my exam.

Hey - I forgot to write this down... I've got my Gmail account, and the invitations are still coming in. Anyone wants one?

Mail me - and of course, tell me why you want one.

Linspire contest will end on 26th, and therefore I'll be busying myself with it. Not that I want the prize so badly. I just want to win it for my cousin. *angelic face*

Hey, it's me.

It's been a while since my last entry... um...

Here are some updates :

-DOOM 3 is finished. read about it at my DA page.
-Some of my classmates under JPA sponsorship is required to go for some 1-week-brainwash, and so classes are off.

Some findings too :

I've done some googling and I came across this blog.
Very interesting, but a little unnoticed (by me.)

From what I've read so far -
She :
-is a girl
-blogger
-is entertaining
-does not know me.

Click here - [link]

It's one of her blogs... go read others as well!

=_="

I don't feel motivated at all, and classes have been quite boring.

Maybe I should just go do Arts instead of Engineering...
But hey, it's not the subject that's killing me. It's the boring teachers...T_T

My mom was telling me to go for arts too. ^^"
"Since you draw so much, why don't you just go do Arts instead??? It's much cheaper."

Apart from that, I've robbed a Dell PC of its DVD-writer yesterday.
I was helping my cousin to change the DVD-drives into normal CD-ROM drives in the new Dell PCs (there was 7.) It's for office use and therefore data-writing devices were not allowed. And as for helping, I was given one of the DVD-drives. (Hurray.)

DOOM 3 is still frightening me, although finished. Kudos for creators of DOOM 3. I'm replaying from where I've freaked out and started playing God-mode. Apparently, there isn't much progress... ^^;

Enough of that. Lindows have been changed into Linspire, and I'm downloading it (for free). It's almost 550 MB, and I've 52% more to go.
Looking forward to using 2 OS on my computer.

I've went to Low Yat Plaza yesterday, and I'm surprised by the drop of prices... If anyone's reading this : Kingston pen drive is now about RM210 for 512, RM130 for 256.
Cheap huh?

I bought my 256 for RM210. And that was less than 3 months ago. T_T

And as for the Tablet PC that I've always wanted, I was disappointed to find that it can do no more than an organiser...
NOT FOR GRAPHIC DESIGN.

Geez... maybe I should just get a desktop PC.


What else... hm...

I've been submitting some pics lately... and beginning to try out the digital painting.

Here's a tip : start big, and reduce its size when you're finished. Your mistakes will hardly be noticed.

But in the end, it all comes to how much patience you have.
Spend some time thinking what to paint, before you actually start.

Allow the juices flow in your head for a lil while, rather than just painting exactly what you see, because a computer can do better in that.


Um... I'm anticipating the coming long essay. I'm never good in writing. Better get myself prepared.

Physics? The whole syllabus ended, and we all haven't learn a thing. Pity.

Chemistry? About to finish. And I'm starting to figure out what we've learnt all this time. I think.


That's about it.

Some of my friends have already stopped blogging... I wonder if I would stop too...

Oh, before I forget - diary writers,

"Keeping a diary is bad for your health, say UK psychologists. They found that regular diarists were more likely than non-diarists to suffer from headaches, sleeplessness, digestive problems and social awkwardness.

Their finding challenges assumptions that people find it easier to get over a traumatic event if they write about it.

“We expected diary keepers to have some benefit, or be the same, but they were the worst off,” says Elaine Duncan of the Glasgow Caledonian University. “In fact, you’re probably much better off if you don’t write anything at all,” she adds.

The study, carried out with David Sheffield of Staffordshire University, was presented on Wednesday at a meeting of the British Psychological Society in Edinburgh."


From Newscientist : http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996374



It says that diarists have worst health conditions.

I have no worries. Since I'm no diarist. I'm a BLOGGER.


Till then, sayonara.