It was as if I had moved faster in time than any other matter in space. It seems only yesterday that i was with Choo, meeting up in Monash after his Dynamics paper; the day i handed in my Monash acceptance form and officially enrolled into my first semester units. It was also the day we went out together after a long time, since he left Sunway University half a year ago for Monash. Anyway, I remembered that we went to Jusco Bukit Tinggi to catch Prom Night. Note that at that period of time, there were rumours that the cinema was haunted. As we went into the cinema for our show, it was pitch black that we cant even see the seats without the light from our handphones. LOL. Anyway, my point is, I have already completed my first year in Monash. It was this fast. And i have another 2 years to go before i earn my degree. The university experience was a mixture of feelings for me. There were the happy times when you meet new people and also see your existing or old friends who parted with you since high school. The happy times continue when you have fun laughing and hanging out with them. Then there was the worst of university: WORKLOAD. It was a complete different atmosphere, college and university. I had my first experience learning through lectures (way weird because it seems i need to study by myself to actually understand rather than the lecturer explaining to me most of the time), preparing tedious laboratory reports (this was bad in semester 2 2008 especially for CHM1011), and assignments. Then in semester 1 2009, i discovered i had to take 3 units with laboratory and indeed, had to complete 22 reports, the most in my entire studying semester. If i am not wrong, no other 1st year students ever needed to complete this amount of reports and i am proud to say i did quite good this semester. overall HD for all reports. : ) : ) : )
The Present:
Now that it is the semester holidays, i have another 2 weeks plus of break before it all begins again. After my last paper on Monday, some of my uni mates and i celebrated jean wei's farewell in pyramid (see previous post). Few days later, i spent my time to catch up with Mediacorp's Table of Glory which i missed while studying for exams. I completed it anyway, and i didnt enjoy the ending just like i didnt enjoy the ending of the little nyonya. I did not go to JB to meet Ian as planned due to opposition from many family members over the swine flu issue.
I SHOULD HAVE JUST WENT.
Stephanie celebrated her birthday over in Hard Rock Singapore, and i was suppose to join her but didnt manage to make it. We were suppose to go visit her friend's ice cream shop opening over at Iruma Shopping complex, but she went alone instead. She came back on thursday and we met up on friday. She brought me the Levi's which was so darn cheap (Note this is not exaggerating, it is DARN CHEAP compared to your normal Levi's). We met up with Amanda and her brother who just got back from Queensland for the semester break (no they don have h1n1). And we talked so much on how different things are in Australia and Malaysia. Note that i heard the malls in Queensland is like one hundredth of One Utama, and i am already complaining that Malaysia's mall cannot beat Vivo City and Takashimaya in Singapore. Hahah but i loved how Amanda said that the day she flew in to KLIA and about to cross the road on the pedestrian crossing, WOOSSSSHHHHH in front of their eyes. HAHAHAHA. If you do not get me, you should experience crossing the pedestrian crossings some day and you will automatically understand! I saw Transformers 2 on Friday in pyramid and got myself a new top (as I promised myself because i didnt go to singapore). The movie was good! It was too long though because i needed to use the washroom badly in the middle of the movie but i was so determined not to leave midway as i know i would miss out much. But i enjoyed the show though, seeing all the visual effects and computer technology. I wonder if any engineering are involved, seeing that robotics are part of mechatronics engineering. HMMM.. Hahaha. I heard from my uncle that the scene which involved the mass destruction of Shanghai was deleted from the movie screened in Shanghai. Currently, i am watching the latest Mediacorp drama 双子星 (The Ultimatum) which stars Fann Wong and Zoey Tay. Fann Wong is gorgeous in this! She looks so much prettier here than in the Star Awards 09.
The Future:
Year 2 of university begins and i have heard from all my seniors that year 2 is really difficult, be it from my engineering friends or my fellow science friends. I can imagine myself suffering next semester. One good thing though, i have only one lab unit which is instrumental chemistry CHM2741 and hahaha, no biology for next semester. I do hope next semester wouldn't be too tough for me, i don't want my GPA to drop drastically and school of science is known to make people's GPA drop drastically with some of their ridiculous units which makes no sense.
when i feel most bored because most of my friends are either back to their hometown, in overseas already, or still having classes. even my monash classmates are mostly back in their hometown for the 3 weeks break. i guess im really gonna relax my mind for the next 3 weeks to the maximum, before it all begins again.
on the bright note, yeay, i might be meeting up with my college friends very soon next week, atleast something is happening (wow i say until i have like NO LIFE).
i have just cleared out my closet which was full of SPM, A Levels and both last and this semester's stuff. imagine it was four shopping bags full. and the plastic bags were the huge ones, not the small one. still, that is only one part of the closet. I still have tonnes of clothings which i do not wear anymore and i still have yet to dispose them. you must be thinking, give to charity lah, but nope, not gonna do that, since they are wayy too old and shabby to be given away to even orphanages or charity. they deserve better things and new products just as much as we do. giving them worned out old clothings is as good as an insult to them.
my final exam was on the 29th which was chm1022 chemistry. the paper was okay but there were some funny questions in the organic part which i don even remember studying but what the heck is just 3 marks out of 180. the thing which i am quite unsatisfied is the pH calculation question which i did not manage to finish because i spent too much time in the kinetics question and thermodynamics question. and also the silliest mistake by forgetting to convert pressure of 1 atm to 1.03 X 10^5 Pa before using the 1st law of thermodynamics, GAHH wasted 2 marks. these marks in my opinion are more worthy to think about than the 3 marks for something which was not even taught in lecture.
after the paper, there was a huge discussion over the paper of course, but after those reviews, a bunch of us headed to pyramid for jean wei's farewell (she is leaving for clayton on 5th of july). we settled at italiannese for lunch.
the food: awesome, but too filling for me even though we ordered so little.
the price: affordable! but i think this is only valid if you go in a larger group of 6 or more. for me the bill was 161+ splitted into 7 so it was quite cheap.
after italiannese, 5 of the girls went bowling, while the rest of us tagged along to watch.
after a while, li yoke and i went shopping. seriously, i was so mad at not being able to shop in the GSS that i wanted to just buy the stuff i liked back here even w/o the sales. but then i had to decide which to get since i saw 2 eye catching tees and 1 pants from topman. and the sales in quiksilver and roxy too. i ended up not buying anything yet that day, but i will be doing so soon. i am still happy i got the levi's from singapore credits to stephanie who got it for me when she was there. thanks much! atleast i benefitted from the GSS indirectly. trust me it was bloody cheap and the item is not even available in msia yet! honestly, i feel malaysian sales are not sincere enough just like pauline said. its either a very low % such as 20 or 30%. then there are the very high % like 70 to 80% because they are old stock. like seriously, the mega sales here does not even include my favourite outlets, they only include Jusco or Parkson and not other retail outlets. like what is up with that?
anyway, i am quite excited for the half blood prince! i had to endure a whole semester in monash waiting for it to show since WB moved the show 7 months away from the initial air date back in november last year. it had better be worth the wait! on an unrelated matter, i just finished watching table of glory. sigh, although Shengwu won in the final match, i was not happy with the ending at all, because he's no longer the cheerful and happy person he used to be. Yikes, mediacorp has this thing in making funny unwanted endings for their good shows such as the little nyonya.
p/s: the road home on KBS World is getting more and more exciting and kan cheong that i am beginning to curse each time the show ends at a dramatic scene!
seriously, the new bitch in town is really the swine flu or what malaysia's minister and the people prefer to call "selsema babi/khinzir". like seriously just say swine flu lah its just two syllables so much easier. anyway, this bitch is gathering comrades like in some exponential growth. and much thanks to this bitch my holiday plans are being put into much consideration.
first of all was my hong kong and macau trip which i was suppose to go with my aunt melinda somewhere in week 1 or 2 of july just before semester 2 starts. thanks to the bitch, we have to postpone this idea since HK is badly affected and no we don plan to be quarantined in the hotel and get stuck there not being able to come back. so yeah, NO hong kong macau for me. thats already sad case number 1.
next case, i am suppose to pay my former classmate Ian who resides in JB a visit u see. and just few days ago i was so mega excited because i plan to head there on the last day of my exam which is next monday the 29th. i would reach there on the 30th. and at the same time we plan to go into singapore on that day too because i want to celebrate stephanie's birthday there since she would be there until july 2nd. and we were so excited to spend time together being intoxicated by the great singapore sales now, or just plain hanging out to get our minds of the awful and stressful semester we had earlier this year.
so right now, i am still on the verge of my final decision if i should head down to JB at all. i have already plan this since before start of the semester and now this bitch is here to ruin everything for me. although i dont think the spread of this disease is that bad in JB and singapore compared to klang valley (this really shocked me when i heard on the news that there were 91 cases when there were less than 40 the day before), many of my relatives and friends already giving me advises not to go and scaring me with sayings like "you go lah, sure get one when you come back" or "singapore is 100X worse than malaysia". how am i suppose to argue when i myself also have part of me thinking of the same thing! but i can say that 90% of me is saying i should really take the trip to JB, since i really just want to escape from home and books and notes after the exams. gahh, how am i suppose to make this difficult choice.
thanks stephanie for being so so so encouraging and supporting me to go, since we planned to meet up for her birthday and i really want to make it!
on an unrelated matter, joo han invited me to join them in their trip to langkawi but he purposely choose the day of my exam and they want to catch that 8 am flight and worse they say i shoud just go alone to meet them up later in the evening! like so i decided not to go with them but head to JB and now this also i am rethinking very carefully and slowly.
can u believe me i still havent finish exams and all i am thinking of is going for holiday. okay this is so random post w/o pictures sorry nothing suitable to post up here. okay maybe some pictures of the places i miss and want to go back again.
Orchard Road: stephanie said she is loving the GSS now because everything is SO, i repeat SO AFFORDABLE!
Clarke Quay: the place is just awesome i tell you, espcially if you enjoy clubbing or chilling out at night!
Sentosa Island
Vivo City: the roof outdoor park is really something!
okay end of post. CHM1022 hopefully don have many many DNA or memorising things !
I wonder if this movie is going to be aired in Malaysia? I havent seen any movie trailers or advertorial in Malaysia for this movie, but i just found out last week that this show will premiere in the US on Friday the 26th! I have been waiting for this movie ever since i heard it was filmed! I read the book and i absolutely loved it! In fact, i enjoy most of Jodi Picoult's books, including The Pact and i am about to read Change of Heart once my exams are over.
Hmm i wonder if Singapore will air this? If they do i don mind going down to watch it! I know Australia is going to show it! Ah, shud have gone to Clayton!
Speaking about exams, i am very annoyed by the fact that my papers (science papers) are always at the end of the examination period. Last semester was also the same where my final paper was in the last week of exam itself. WHY WHY WHY MONASH WHY?
I have been torturing my brain cells with so much information on Biotechnology BTH1802 and Biology BIO1022 (this is not as bad as biotechnology, but still bad especially the chapters on immunology, hormonal control and reproduction, and animal development which is a real brain cell killer!). I really hope to do well in both papers since i studied so hard trying to understand the lengthy explanations and sometimes ridiculous minute information which requires memorising. I am so going to give them a kick in the ass on wednesday and thursday (back to back papers)!
Anyway, i have realised that i havent been posting up pictures in by blog lately, since i am quite lazy. So i will be posting up a few now, back from the last days of laboratories and also the long forgotten stupid fire drill in monash, which interrupted my test.
Fire Drill '09
1. Everyone being calm since we all know there wasnt any fire, but pretending to care since they were rushing us out.
2. Damn hot you know?
Biology Lab (Frog Dissection)
3. We were "expert" animal slayers.
4. Lixian was actually asking if we can flip the frog backwards to locate the brain.
Biology Lab (Microbiology)
5. Yours truly, with the inoculation loop and the blood horse agar containing the bacteria i grew.
6, 7, 8 & 9. Last day of lab already.
10. Sulin, me and Sheowpin in LT5001 while waiting for lecturer to come in.
Okay most of the pictures i have are in facebook, actually they are mostly my experiments. LOL. Rarely take pictures with my friends since we don really have leisure time, mostly also doing lab reports. YAY next sem only one laboratory unit!
p/s: i might be celebrating Stephanie's birthday together with her in Singapore! pray i get to go.
pp/s: i totally didnt realise the biotechnology unit code BTH sounds like BITCH until Yew Chong pointed it out yesterday : )
Is the best song i heard from Super Junior. Also the one i love most from the group. Thank you Stephanie for recommending me the song, I fell in love with it the first time i heard it. I also love the music videos, both dance and drama version. Check them out! I chose the mvs with english subtitles.
Dance Version
Drama Version
You and I
Is the song from FT Island which i first heard on a footage from KBS's The Road Home. Also another great song and the one i love from FT Island. Sadly, there isn't a music video for this song, though i really hope there will be one soon. *Hopes* Anyway, here's a part of the song from the footage of The Road Home
The Road Home episode 77
On the examination note, exam week in Monash started today. All the best to my science friends! Also, all the best to my engineering friends: Zubair, David, Joo Han, Ainsley, Calvin, Kerry, Chee Yung, Ryan, Kai Wei, Paul Lee, Andrew, William, Willie, Kai Jye, Xin Li, Ju Beng, Sook Yan, Chin Lynn, Mar Vin and both Kevin and Choo in Clayton. Also, my friends who're in business and economics: Yi Mei, Guo Joon, Nina, Carmen, Si Wei, Jo-lyne, Yi Fon, Venitha, Yew Chong and Gary. Not forgetting Serene, Irene and Mei San who're in the school of medicine and health sciences!
I seriously hate BTH1802 because i really don't think the unit has clear outline and objectives. Also, I don't know half the things i am learning, except for those stuff with recombinant dna tech. Also i have seriously NO interest in biotechnology which makes me even more reluctant to want to study the unit. GAHH monash and their common core units.
Oh I also hate all those organic chemistry part of CHM1022 which is so memorising especially those DNA thingy which is way TOO much details. Like who really needs to memorize? It should be more about understanding rather than memorising unnecessary details? No wonder science are always associated with the term nerd and weird because tof he way things are done which are so impractical.
Thats that with my unsatisfaction with studies. Oh i have finished watching Ugly Betty year 3, Gossip Girl year 2 but i totally havent caught up with Desperate Housewives year 5 since the episode Edie's husband burned the club after murdering his doctor. WOW I know i watch so many tv shows. Ok i think im blabbering already so bye bye till next time.
