Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Drug issue - my thought

Nguyen Tuong Van will almost certainly hang on Friday after Singapore today cut a thin thread of hope that his life could be saved.


In case you don’t know here is a short summary of what happened. Nguyen who is an Australian citizen was caught in Singapore trying to smuggle almost 400 grams of heroin from Cambodia to Australia three years ago. Anyone who carries more than 15 grams of heroin into Singapore will be sentenced to death if found guilty. The Australian Government had appealed for clemency for Nguyen, who has been on death row in Changi prison since being sentenced in March last year. He now faces execution on this Friday (2nd Decmber 2005).


Erm… honestly I have mix feelings for this case. Every country has their laws and punishments for different kinds of crime committed. Every time before we enter, say, Malaysia and Singapore, we are warned that drug smuggling is a serious offence and will be sentenced to death if it exceeds a certain amount. But yet people still try to challenge the law and gamble their life just to get the money they craved for. I don’t understand and perhaps I can never understand why these people put money ahead of their precious life? Or may be you can argue that if they don’t get that amount of money they will be dead as well. Anyway… for me it is still a stupid thing to do – having known that nowadays the customs, particularly in Singapore, is so strict.


We have to know that drugs really blight the community and I am sure that you won’t be please to find out your children are addicted with marijuana or heroin when you become parents. So I have to say the punishment has to be stern as ‘kill one (may) scare the rest’. Whether it has to be a death penalty or not I think it will be an issue to be discussed for years to come. Anyway, for me I rather choose to have a death sentence rather than a life prison sentence. I think I will become insane if I have to spend more than 50 years in jail so I would rather choose to die instantly.


Australian government had appealed for clemency for this young 25 years old Aussie man but every time the clemency was turned down immediately by Singapore. Singapore is well known with its strictness when it comes to laws and I don’t think they will change their mind anyhow anywhere although the Australia government may ask Singapore to have Nguyen Tuong Van's execution referred to the International Court of Justice. And I think it is a bit unfair if they change their mind to call off the death sentence, because it is unfair to have a set of rules for Australian and a set of rules for other nationalities. But recently there are rumours that Australia might protest against this death penalty by using economy boycotts. If that happens I think the relationship between Australia and Singapore will be well deteriorated.


Anyway... back to Malaysia. I am not very certain how the customs in Singapore is but I am very certain how the customs officers in Malaysia are doing their job. This is what exactly happened to my relatives, friends and me every time we enter Malaysia. There are normally two officers, each standing at a side of the gate of the exit, ‘looking’ at us before we walk pass the gate and officially go into Malaysia. They never ever check our baggage to see whether is there anything forbidden to bring into the country. We are allowed to buy a litre of liquor for tax free and any addition of that will be taxed, accordingly to the tax system. But one of my relative was ‘smuggling’ 4 bottles of liquor in her baggage and nothing happen to her.


Last year when I was in the plane back to Malaysia, a Caucasian sitting next to me asked me, what he needs to declare or show to the officers before he enter Malaysia. I was a bit uncertain how to answer him. Really… how should I answer him? I think for a while and I decided to tell him the exact situation which is happening all this while. From his gaze he looks stunned and shock. But anyway I ask him to declare just in case the officers check on him. Then we have a good chat about the cultural in Malaysia, as he was heading there for tourist purpose. This time I was stunned by him. The first thing he asked me was about the ‘bribery cultural’ in Malaysia. I ask him how would him know about this cultural was well practised in Malaysia. Yet he told me Malaysia is well known about that, aren’t we? I did nothing than nod my head.


I want to make a point here. Death penalty is still a legal sentence in some countries around the world. But yet those countries that applied this rule have the worst record of drug smuggling case. If the customs of every country do their job strictly and seriously, the number of drug smuggling cases will be well decreased. Not that I wanted to praise Australia but I do think their customs really do a good job, don’t they? So if every country can take them as an example, and by using newest technology, every drug smugglers could be easily spotted. If that is the case, is there still a need to apply death sentence?

Terrified by nothing terrifying

Today is the 7th day after my final exam and I still can’t find a suitable house to shift. As what I did over the week, the very first thing I do after I wake up is to log on to internet and pray that there will be new houses available for rent. Not many to choose though... another disappointing morning. After days and days of searching.. really got fed up and angry… Sydneyis such a big city.. why just so little houses for lease? Anyway… I then log on into a local newspaper website to see anything interesting happen today. The first thing I red was “Town Hall Station Caught Fire”.

The first thing came into my mind was “shit… Sydney is under terrorist attack”. I was really anxious and wondering what had happened and prayed that none of my friends got hurt. Ok… I was wrong… absolutely-utterly-truly wrong… indeed it was just a small fire!!! Something went wrong in the air conditioning system and part of the vents caught fire and there were black smoke coming out from the vents so the whole 3 storeys underground station was evacuated. Since that station is located right at the centre of the city it causes 30 minutes of delayed for the whole railway system in Sydney. Anyway.. other than chaos of 20000 passengers, nothing much happened actually… and hopefully terror attack wont struck Sydney anyhow anytime anywhere. Finger cross~

I watched Flightplan with my friends today and I thought it was quite a nice movie… but still a bit disappointing. At the beginning I thought it was a ghost story coz of the daunting music and those annoying sudden deafening sound effect… I really really hate that kind of sound effect… scare the hell out of me out of nothing… anyway… I start liking it as the story develops. I was really hoping that it is a ghost story and craves to know what happened to Julie Foster’s daughter and husband. But after knowing it was another aircraft hijacking movie I was really disenchanted.. a bit anticlimax… aiyo… how many plane hijacking movie already oh… still plane hijacking… but I have to admit out of so many plane hijacking movies I think this is probably the best I have seen… thumbs up to Julie Foster.. her emotion was really good!!!

To sums up everything today… I was terrified by nothing terrifying~

Sunday, November 20, 2005

And so...

And so… the exam is over… I just couldn’t believe that I have finished my second year of my degree… half gone half to go… it was like just a glimpse and 2 years are gone.. anyway… it has been a long year… for this coming 3 months of summer holiday I will have a good rest to rejuvenate myself while catching up with friends back in Ipoh… for this exam, passing all the subjects shouldn’t be a problem but just a matter of how good it is… hopefully it will turn out alright…

And so… it has been exactly a year… exactly a year since I broke up with her… many things have changed and happened since then… the good news is I’ve move on and so does she… and the bad news (or good news if u like :P) is I am still single… Sometimes things just turn out not as what we wish they should have been… and being a human… or I should say being a successful man, we just have to cope with it and move on…

Thursday, November 10, 2005

Lovely odour !?

This is another typical blistering hot 30 something degrees febrile spring day and I was stuck in a horde shoulder to shoulder train on my way back home. Inside the train, it was really really hot… and I mean really really…the train carriage was full of people, every single seat was seated, every standable place was occupied, and there wasn’t any air conditioning in the train… the windows were sort of useless… erm.. don’t know how to explain here.. Sydneysider will understand… anyway… I was sweating like shit and my shirt almost gone transparent… start getting impatient… wanna jump out the train ASAP… then there come this lovely odour uncle…

This lovely uncle is incredibly fat I would say, and has a huge belly… not big.. I have to emphasize… is huge!!! May be I am just one third of his body size. Seeing he wearing a blazer at this weather just drove me nuts… with his long outdated big glasses which covered nearly half of his face and holding a big sack on his hand, his looks just makes me laugh… anyway something weird happened and drew my attention to him.

The first thing I realised was the people around him were trying to move away from him. Everyone in the train starts wondering whats happening there… “Is him carrying a bomb? Are we going to die?” that was what I heard when the girl sitting beside me murmured to her friend. The two girls are hot… I would say they are around my age.. but is angmo (Caucasian).. *sigh*.. whatever.. Deep bottom in my heard I was laughing like shit.. terrorist… WTF!!

But then I sort of understand why everyone was avoiding him. People around him were using tissue paper, handkerchief and newspaper covering their nose… so I guess he must be really ‘fragrant’. Then the smell started to spread… I was sitting like around 10 feet away from him and I could smell it after a few seconds he entered the train. The odour must be very intense and if I was standing next to him I guess I would have thrown up or fainted.

Then I saw this lady not far away from him took out her perfumed and start spraying to the air like spraying an air freshener. When I saw that I just couldn’t resist it and starts laughing but I tried to look down to the floor so that no one would realise… but the two hot chicks sitting next to me basically just laugh out loudly… they knew I was laughing about it and they looked at me and we just keep laughing and laughing for so long… the funniest part was the way that lady sprayed her perfume… it was like those air freshener advertisement, spraying 180 degrees up to the air and her gaze was just so funny… funny shit…

Luckily that uncle got off the train just after a couple of stops… and those around him heaved a big relief sigh right after he went off… and the girls look at me and we start laughing again... BTW we did chat a bit and they are lovely girls.. *sigh* .. angmo…

So please lar.. those who have odour after sweating… wear some perfume la if you wanna take a public transport… don’t suffocate people around you la…

Friday, November 04, 2005

(Sydney, 4th Nov) The run, which was self sponsored, with no whatsoever price, started around 11 a.m. yesterday at Sydney Uni Engineering PC Lap and ended 1 p.m. this afternoon at the same place. Special thanks and congratulations to all the participants.

Ok... what actually happened was our this so called ‘study group’ had spent 26 hours studying, sort of continuously. We started in our own uni library and afterwards invaded UNSW’s as their library opens till midnight which I was so jealous about… my uni, Sydney uni wor… a uni with a big name wor… but the library always closes at 10pm the latest and we have no place to go if we wanted to stay any longer. Unlike us, UNSW is just so considerate to their students and allowed them to stay in the library till midnight. So we went there surreptitiously and pretended as a UNSW student hoping that there won’t be any ID inspection.

Up till midnight, we then went to a nearby 24/7 McD and thought we could continue our ambitious marathon there. But the music they were playing was just so funky and makes me feel like dancing rather than studying… seriously... it was hip hop music… wonder anyone could concentrate and study in that atmosphere…and we saw a couple studying there though… anyway… the main thing is the music was really too loud and so we went to Kim’s place to study. From then on.. we started going out of track…

First there was this orange juice party… everyone was served with orange juice to freshen up our mind… so that we can concentrate in our study, NOT!!! Things started getting wrong and wrong, someone was catching beetle, eating ice-cream, eating biscuit, sleeping, playing with ice, taking photo, recording funny video, smoking, then more orange juice party, girls peeping, fixing contact lens, telling lame jokes… and the list go on and on… and then one by one fell asleep and abandoned me… until 7.10am this morning… everyone was asleep and left me alone… and that was the time I could concentrate the most… haha...but then I just couldn’t stand it anymore and crumble at 1pm. Whatever… u guys rock!!! Keep it up!!! How about tonight??? haha

So everyone should be assuming that I am a soil mechanics expert by now after spending 26 incredible hours of studying… but I can tell u all that I am not!!! Out of the 26 hours I think I just studied for 10 hours or so, may be, and the rest of the time was discussing problems with friends and doing other things. May be because of over strained my brain, I think my brain is a bit malfunctioning… spent a lot of time to figure out whats the lecture notes are talking about. I don’t know why, may be is just a bit jaded, every time I need to read a sentence twice just to understand whats the sentence is about… and then interpreting and memorizing..

It’s 6 o’clock in the evening now and I just woke up. After 4 hours of nap I am fresh and sexy again… going to kick off right after my dinner!!!

Anyway just feel like writing something after seeing all the numbers 93345624876934 for so long.
GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE HAVING EXAM!!! STUDY HARD, STUDY SMART, PRAY HARD!!! … then … PLAY HARD!!!

Sunday, October 30, 2005

雨天

渴望已旧的雨,总算来了……
前几天都是被那炎热的气候热醒,而今天却恰恰相反,好睡得不想起床。赖在床上发懒的我,突然想起一首歌——燕姿的《E-Lover》,奇怪~ 于是打开Laptop翻查MP3档案,play了那首歌。

雨天 想着我们不曾碰面 望着你的照片
你问我台北好吗 伦敦阴着天 两个城市雨绵绵
………..
………..
Don’t you know, I love you 爱我请你试着疯狂一些
不听不管不问就算是种危险
不再害怕裹足不前 爱个人就该相信直觉

其实也没什么特别意思,只是第一句是“雨天”,所以才让我想起这首歌。听完后立刻跳下床,干活去了!

傍晚……望着窗外那绵延已久的细雨,很想抛掉眼前的讲义到屋外让雨浇一浇,滋润一下那疲惫的身躯,然后再踢一场球,那该多好啊!

不能!还得继续努力奋斗!!!

Chicken Flu

I should be studying at this time but I feel a bit sleepy… so think of writing something to stimulate my adrenalin production. Suddenly think of something to relate with a song sung by LMF… I ain’t very sure about the lyric but it sounds something like that:

“The chicken is sick, and then you kill all the chicken;
The dog is sick, and you kill all the dog;
If the human is sick, will you kill all the human?”

As everyone knows, the world is now having a crisis – the bird flu. From what I know and what I heard, the crisis couldn’t be solved only until a bird flu vaccine is ‘invented’ (don’t know what the correct word is). Perhaps the vaccine is already there but just to be tested in more advances to make sure it really works… I am not sure la…

I can understand bird flu is really hard to control, as bird got wings and they can fly to everywhere, anywhere they want. In the name of ‘controlling the spread of the flu’, authorities started killing poultry in the farms. Heaps and heaps of bird (chicken, duck, bird…) have been killed and are to be killed in the next few months time. At this instant, without the vaccine, is that mean that only by killing can stop the flu from spreading? But there were also news and rumours which said the flu can spread among humans. If that is the case, I think the authorities need to start killing those human infected by the flu!!! (If that happens, then all the HIV carrier also has to be killed – to control the HIV from spreading!)

If the killing spree continues, surely by the end of this decade the bird flu can be fully under controlled!!! But I afraid that birds will be extinct or…… perhaps human will be extinct too… hmm…… may be can start storing a few chicken now – to show my son how actually chicken looks alike!

Friday, October 28, 2005

自大狂

今天是我大二最后一天的上课日子,好像才刚刚开课似的,但一眨眼一年又过去了。很难想象我已渡过一半的大学生涯,再过两年就得到社会上混了。今年的路的确走得有点坎坷,一年内发生了许多不顺利的事情,无论如何过去的事我也不想再提,其中只是感到非常庆幸我仍活着。

嗯……说一说我最后一个星期的威风事吧,好让我能安慰安慰自己一下,最少让我今晚能睡得着。前几天我代表了我的组员在 PRESENTATION 里 PRESENT,好久没面对这么多人演说过,有点怯场,不过仍有希望得到最高分; 其中一个土力学的 REPORT 得了满分(好像只有我一个 :P);其它的 REPORT 也得了满高的分数。(自大狂又发作了!)只希望这些分数可以补救我那考得很烂的年中测验啦!

我这个人非常 ‘大心’,什么都有兴趣,什么都想做到最好,可是往往就被那可恶的惰性和那 ‘爆棚’ 的自信心征服。有些朋友说我太有自信了,又有些自大,导致我不能向更广更专的方面发展。其实我也知道,也完全认同他们的说法,不过那是我的个性啊,我也觉得那是我成功的原因之一。

无论如何希望在来临的考试中我能征服它们,之后再脱颖而出,至少让我有个完美的成绩回家面见深爱我的父母!

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Deteriorated Chinese

Seems like I am writing quite frequent these few days… yet I do feel like writing something in this gloomy evening. The weather has been crazy this year… although weather can never affect my emotion or spirit or whatever, but I just couldn’t stand this extreme changing weather. Winter should be over by now but now seems like it is going to rain throughout the week. I just froze all my winter clothing up last weekend and perhaps I have to thaw them now if I don’t want myself to be frozen.

The previous short story or love story (or whatever you want to call it) is actually what exactly happened to one of my close friend here. I wrote that up basically is just to kill off my spare time and he actually asked me to write it (er… dunno wats the reason behind -_-). Trust me… it wasn’t a fun thing to do writing up that story in Chinese… I never know that my Chinese has deteriorated so badly till I wrote that… No fluency, not touching as what it supposed to be, no romance, no nothing… what left may be just a couple of vocab that seems to be very amaze which perhaps not… I think I spent more than an hour to write that piece up... forget lots and lots of vocabulary… even with the help of the computer I still couldn’t remember lots of the words… Whatever… cheer up~~ jack

Sunday, October 16, 2005

杰与妮

……不知不觉杰与妮已分手整整一个月了。从分手那一天至今他们未曾见过面,也许原因是不想在崛起那段缠缅轰烈的恋情吧。杰从来没放弃过任何复合的希望,一直努力争取复合那份弦机缘分的机会;可能他是付出较多的一方所以对这份感情非常依依不舍,其二是妮没给他一个可以接受的分手理由。至于妮呢,她好像很潇洒似,冷视杰在分手幕后的所做所为,拒绝与他见面;也没人能猜透她到低在想些什么。

这天夜晚,杰载着朋友到市里吃晚餐,心里带着一线希望可以在茫茫人海中见到妮。果然,在一个红绿灯路口他真的见到了她!当时杰在车上不能下车,他急忙的拨电给妮希望她能在原地等他,只想见见妮闲聊几句,但妮拒绝了他!在杰再三要求下妮终于答应了,不过只给杰一分钟!她还说“我只等你十秒,十、九、八……”蛙!恐怖!

杰急坏了,挂了电话快速找了个泊车位然后跳下车冲了过去。一身打扮得满有型的杰,用着毕生最快的速度,穿梭过街上的人群,向着妮的方向跑去。街上的人都以疑惑的眼神看着他,而他却不以为然继续努力的奔驰。到了,杰到了……让他感到最欣慰的是妮还站在原地等着他。妮很幽默地说“你跑得还满快耶!”那一瞬间,呆着的杰心里只叹着“一切都值了……” 杰万万想不到分手一个月后,他们竟然会在这重情况下偶见。

他们闲聊了一阵然后杰约了妮下周一同吃饭,妮终于答应了!杰也终于等到他渴望的答复了!几句老套话后,两人背对背各自朝向目的地走去,完结了那难能可贵的几分钟。杰满面春风的回去找朋友,妮也许,可能,应该是吧!杰只能猜测着……

下周的那顿晚餐会是怎样的呢?杰与妮的感情有否转机的可能性呢?妮会扑约吗?杰会因此看到希望而不再失眠吗?妮会因为杰对感情的执著被感动而改变主义吗?没人知道。现在杰只能抱着乐观的心态等待那永恒的夜晚……

上述所说的好像很戏剧般,像排电影又像爱情小说似的,但那一切的确发生在我身边啊!“悲欢离合”,人与人之间的感情真的只是四个字那么简单吗?我不认为,经验告诉爱情是复杂无章的。但我深信不疑缘分的存在……信缘惜缘!

Busy, Away, Be Right Back...

It’s now 2.30 am Saturday midnight, seems like that f**king Chelsea is winning again, make me feel sick…while waiting for the final results I have a look at my msn list, wonder who is still around this early… not many… around 20… erm… or I should say just a couple? Because most of them are in busy mode or away mode or whatever mode.

I start wondering… are they really away? Are they really busy? So busy that they have to tell the whole list that “I am really busy, don’t chat with me!” or they just simply mean “I am busy, but if you want to chat with me, then may be I can spare sometime chatting with you.” Hmm… if really that busy then why bother to on the msn? For those who are ‘away’, may be I can understand… as they are really away and if you idle for a couple of minutes then msn will automatically change to away mode. Hmm… but I afraid that they are not away!

I don’t know whats the reason behind all these away and busy mode… but I do know that most of the time when I chat with those busy or away users they did reply me. Hmm… so those are either their ‘spirit’ or they are not really away or busy la… right? Then why have to put away or busy mode? So that the msn logo besides the nick got a small red circle and looks nicer? Or they are designing their picture with a red circle in msn? Weird…blur~~

Anyway… that’s most of case... but there are some of the busy mode user are really busy and sometimes I get scolded by them, “you cannot see I am in busy mode ga?”… I then replied them that “whole list also in busy mode, I cannot differentiate which 1 is telling the truth and which 1 is lying…” whatever… I just know that most of the users already defeated the purpose and meaning of ‘busy’ and ‘away’……

Saturday, October 15, 2005

神话

刚看过才上映不久由成龙和金善喜主演的《神话》,觉得非同反响,几乎好一段时间没看过那么成功的一部现代与古代参拌的电影了,值得再看。龙叔啊……老咯……不要排爱情片咯……看了很不自在……别让金善喜说对白时按着良心说啦……

不知道我是一个音乐怪还是因为长时间被音乐熏陶下,我的耳朵战胜了眼睛,戏里的音乐重是比情节更吸引我。无可否认那些打仗的局面和士气都比不上LOTR和TROY等,但是我非常佩服中国电影里通过音乐、词句和表情表达出来的内涵,真的是一流!其中有三部分另我印象特别深刻,其中一段是成龙和金善喜掉到河里然后在山边休息还有他们下雪在山洞里避寒时,那弦乐奏出的音乐我觉得非常有味道。还有一段就是成龙闯进陵墓后和金善喜相见的一幕,又是弦乐感触了我。总而言之整部电影的音乐词曲配合都非常好。

整部电影唯一不喜欢的就是结局。对,很多像盗墓或寻宝这类电影的结局都是说盗墓一定不成功,然后一定活不出去。《神话》的结局也差不多一样,但是我觉得要是能让秦皇的陵墓毫无损坏而且不公布于世,那不会更好吗?成龙在戏里最后一幕写了一本关于陵墓探险之类的书,那么是否陨石的秘密公开了?陵墓有否被发掘呢?其实结局也不赖啦……只不过因为戏名是《神话》,所以如果能神圣一点也许会好些。

如果每个人梦里都有自己的神话,希望在我梦里曾经出现的那一幕也会在现实里成真……

Thursday, October 13, 2005

孙燕姿

最近孙燕姿又出了新专辑,应该是她的第九张吧~ 觉得她这张专辑没什么特别的歌曲能吸引我……燕姿……怎么啦……是我的口味变了还是这专辑真的不什么特别?

我是被孙燕姿首张同名专辑里的《天黑黑》而吸引的,非常喜欢那首歌……当时每天都要听了才能睡得着-_- 没那么夸张啦……只是记得每天都在听……直到后来连中间钢琴solo那段都听到会弹了才甘愿把HIFI里的cd换掉! 后从此我就深深的迷上燕姿了……最让她全部歌迷感叹的是她的男友……曾看过他的照片,他除了胖过我以外没什么比我好!

很多朋友曾问我干嘛喜欢燕姿,她不但没身材,还很瘦,又不很漂亮。我完全认同他们的说法,她的确瘦,真的真的很瘦,好像皮包骨似的,身材不必说吧……但是我觉得她的歌唱出了我的心声,她每出一张专辑的timing都非常符合我当时的心情……每一首歌都好像在说着我的故事,从《天黑黑》到《我要的幸福》到《绿光》到《逃亡》到《Hey Jude》到《爱从零开始》到《我不难过》到《遇见》到《我的爱》……都细叙了我过去几年发生的点滴。而且我很喜欢她唱歌的感觉和她拉音的格式。

希望听多几次后我也会喜欢这张新专辑吧~


“我站在靠近天的顶端 张开手全都释放 用月光取暖 给自己力量
才发现关于梦的答案 一直在自己手上 只有自己能 让自己发光”
〈逃亡〉——《风筝》

“永恒不能赶快 还是岁月不名白 风风雨雨宁愿相信 明天晴天”
<明天晴天>——《完美的一天》

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Yet Again

Finally it happens… yup… it really happens this time…

Not too long ago I was accused to have plagiarised others people work which was actually the other way round… the lecturer sorted it out and I cleared my name… but that was just a minor issue compared with what happened today…

During the lecture with the same lecturer this morning, one of the reports was returned to the students but unfortunately two of my friends and me didn’t get ours… I supposed something went wrong again… three of us went to see the lecturer after the class and the lecturer look really incensed and told us that there are three almost identical reports and wanted us to give our explanation individually… and yeah… I was laughing to myself because I knew this would happen again…

Two of them went in his room before me and they told the lecturer my report is original and they start giving their own reason why is it so similar to mine… I never want to know whats their excuses... because the level of similarity is just too much(will get into that later)… at that very moment I was literally furious deep inside although my visage just looks usual… and at last the lecturer speak to me… he told me that they got zero for that report… he knew I was innocent and joked with me that my reports are just too good and understandably why is it so popular among my friends… I was wondering what he meant by that.. he then gave me back my report and told me that actually I got the highest mark in that particular report.. and oh yeah.. that makes my day… for sure he asked me to learn my lesson – NOT TO LEND MY REPORT ANYMORE!

Two of them are my friends… one particularly close… I never hesitate to lend them as I trust them so much that they would never copy… and turn out exactly, if not exactly then 70%, same with mine… come on la… chibai wei… if wanna copy also use brain a bit then paraphrase la… used my picture, used my graphs, used my results tables, used my description, discussion… everything la…. I write 12345 then they write 13245… sure can spot la.. so similar… if change to 52431 or 32415.. then may be not that easy to spot ler…initially I wanted to help them to explain to the lecturer but after seeing their report I just refused to do that.. because it is just too much… but I am not angry with them and they will remain my friends.. always will be… just think that they are too dim-witted to have copy so much.. u think lecturer no eyes ge meh…

Ok… now good la… I am the most famous student in the department now… not because that I am smart… and not because I got the highest mark in my report… but just because I was being too nice and too naive to lend my reports to others... my guts feeling told me that there will more plagiarism stuffs happening in the next couple of weeks as some of my friends did lend their reports to others… I start liking the show now… I will just sit back and watch this chi bai show… see how many of them will get zero… enough la.. chi bai.. copy copy… END

Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Hot~

Today is my last day of semester break and I was staying at home finishing all those bloody assignments. Did so many mistakes in the calculations and my temper was getting worse and worse… keep on swearing to myself… till then I only figured out the weather was so freaking hot… I thought the winter was just over not too long ago and now I was like in the middle of summer… couldn’t stand the heat.. took of my shirt at last…

I never know whats the peak temperature till I watched the evening news just now. According to the reported it reached 34 degree Celsius and it was the hottest day in October since 30 years ago. This reminds me what happened almost around this time a year ago where there was a day it reached 39 degree in September which is very very odd here. Yeah.. we knew that the global temperature has been rising since don’t know when cause of the increase of greenhouse gases or other whatever reasons.

Throughout the years water issue has been discussed thoroughly here in Sydney as the drought continues with no sign of improving. I was wondering are all these climates weather just a one off? I afraid not! Seems like all these climates weather is a climate change – a permanent change that can never recover. The drought here is not getting better but getting worse. It hasn’t rain at the catchment area for years now. Is it going to rain there sometime in the future? Hmm.. Unlikely…

Anyway, remember to throw your rubbish not anywhere else but in a dustbin. Perhaps that’s the least we could do to help this earth and hopefully everyone could do that someday in the future (very ambitious hope which will never come true anyway anyhow…) and may be is the way I was brought up or whatever reason… I hate seeing people throwing rubbish all over the place and I never (or should say really seldom) do it… seems like I am getting a bit too far… I was first grumbling about the weather and now ending up having an immense hope… hmm… ~~

Friday, September 30, 2005

Time flies

It has been 10 weeks since the freaking accident took place… still no news yet… hopefully luck is with us this time… wish we could get away from the compensation.

Time flies… my semester break is finishing in a split of a second. Have been spending most of the morning on the bed during this break… basically just eat and sleep for the first few days… luckily my room hasn’t smell… if not really looks like a pig farm.

Anyway I did go back to uni everyday to do the group project. Got fed up with all these non-stop incoming assignments, reports and quizzes… literally sick of those stuffs… luckily now just left a couple of them to summit before the end of the semester. The final exam is coming really soon or I should say just a month away from now but seems like I still don’t have the ‘ohm’ to kick start my revision. I have to motivate myself anyhow start revising to avoid what happened last semester.

So happy that at last Chelsea drew their first ever game this season… I admit that they look pretty strong and seems like they are not going to crumble with the bench players they’ve got… seems like they can only lose a game when 11 of their first team got injured before January and Roman Abromovich got bankrupt… but I do believe they will deteriorate anyhow during the season… so hopefully Liverpool can kick their ASS this weekend to make Mourinho looks like a clown – claming EPL is a one horse race!!! Anyway… glad that Ruud is back and MAN UTD still RULEZ~

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Forget about it

erm.. perhaps I've made too much complain and made too much attention about the plagiarism stuff... seems like every students in the department also know... anyway... just forget about it... put the matter into a rest... and just wanna warn those pok kai... don't copy anymore!!!

Saturday, September 17, 2005

Bad Spell

Recently just thought back what I had been through for the past 10 months and I wouldn’t believe how bad my luck was. ‘A Series of Unfortunate Event’ just happened to me one after another. Starting from last November… first I broke up with my girl friend ONE day before I went back to Malaysia… had TWO tyres punctured in a highway at a night during my vacation… then failed my FIRST ever subject in uni last semester under certain f***ing criteria… had my first ever damn SCARY SERIOUS car accident… and lately, being caught PLAGIARISED other student’s work! Wao.. this literally drives me mad… Actually I was the first one to write that report and being helpful I lend my report to my friend... and now... I was accused to have copied his work… how wretched, pessimistic, pathetic I was… I swear to earth that I will clear my name under any circumstances. FIRE ALSO COME!!! What a period of bad spell… Anyway, being optimistic, I do believe that once the ball reached its minimum point and hits the ground it will bounce back up sky-scrapingly lofty high.

Sunday, August 28, 2005

迟迟不来的春天

再过几天就是春天了,赶吗天气还是这样冷。尤其是夜深人静的时候,冷的手脚发抖。对着干枯无叶无花的花树早已发闷了,很期望春天的到来,期望看到万物再重新滋长,期望看到绿叶花朵茂密的花树,春天总是给人类带来非一般的希望……‘一年之计在于春’……在澳洲运用这句话似乎有点不对……年关已近……还有什么好计划呢?

眼看着路上的恋人都出双入对,好像很恩爱似的,心头有些酸溜溜的感觉。这时候我又不由自主的想起三年前的这个时候,当时我也像他们一样,有着自己的春天…哎…过去了始终还是过去了!想到这里,只能渴望春天和我的下一个‘春天’快点到来……哎……迟迟不来的春天……

Monday, August 08, 2005

小回顾

不知为什么这几天脑海里一直浮现着华乐的歌曲,让我想起以前在中学时代投身于华乐团的威风史。中学时大部分的时间都花在乐团里,几乎连功课也荒废了。要不是父母的叮咛和朋友的勤奋,相信我的成绩早就不堪设想了。

也许是好奇心吧,小学时不知怎么参加了华乐团,然而慢慢的崛起我对华乐的兴趣。由于我还玩的不赖,被老师看中后更发掘我的潜能。到了中学的华乐团后我可说是个‘满顶尖’的团员,从此每场表演我的名字必定被列在合奏阵容里,不时还有机会独奏。把所有大大小小、校内、校外的表演和比赛加起来,相信我中学时代出场都有整百遍吧!真的不计其数……

我最高峰时应该是我中五被委任为《喜悦》音乐会的筹委主席吧!我把校方也吓坏了;在约只有三十几名团员的齐心协力下,我们酬到了三万多令吉!当然这要感谢群体团员的刻苦、家长的伟大和老师的付出。当晚的表演歌曲首首都是大曲,全都是满考技术的,让礼堂里拥挤的观众听出耳油。我还把著名的弦乐Canon in D 改篇为华乐,也算是个小突破吧。还记得当晚我用两重乐器独奏了两首歌曲,至于其余的曲目我也上下台也不知多少次了……音乐会过后我也曾红透校际乐团……虽然也只不过是一时而已……但是已经足够了…… :P

离开中学后都很少接触华乐,去年的暑假我代表了三德中学华乐团参赛了最后一次,不再是以演奏员的身份,而是指挥!才发觉原来手上握着指挥棒比握着乐器的压力大很多。虽然到后来我们只得了优秀奖,我最憎恨的奖,因为连续那了三届、六年,但是感觉还满好的。嗯……最后一次呢,是因为我觉得我给够了,也是时候交棒了,我也累了……眼看着训练出来的团员都有了点表现却要离去他们,与我肩并肩作战了多年的朋友也要深学去了,几许舍不得……但我还是这样潇洒的离开了!

不时想起《木棉花开》这首曲时,内心都十分感触!

星云法师:“‘一些人’不能进步是因为一再回顾过去的成就。”

那我算是‘一些人’吗?

Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Uni Started Again

After 3 weeks of winter break uni started again. I told myself I have to work really hard this semester as I did quite badly last semester and I wish I can regain the results I achieved last year

Sunday, July 24, 2005

Sorry & Never Again

As we were having our winter break 3 of my friends from Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne came to Sydney last week. Although we haven’t met each other for just 4 months but still feel great to revitalise with each other. Yet this might be the only chance to meet each other in Australia and visit around as everyone has to pursue their own studies very soon.

Everything was pretty fine till the second day of the visit. We rented a car and went to the well known Blue Mountain. On the way back we had a really bad accident, but luckily no one was hurt. Thank God. I was the driver and perhaps drove like an idiot and therefore caused the accident to happen.

I was driving at the speed of average 120 to 130 km/h where the limit is only 60 or 70 km/h, and overtaking cars at the double line. Crazy huh… Although I was driving relatively fast, but I still managed to control the car quite well until a shallow turn. The turning was fairly small angled but right after the turn there was a divider right at the middle of the road. I saw it but the car was too fast and I didn’t have enough time to stop. The car hit the divider at the speed of around 100 km/h and the car lost control and spined for around 5 to 6 rounds then hit a bus stop and then a tree before it stopped. Bloody hell…

Everyone was really calm and luckily no one was hurt but the car was seriously damaged. 3 of the doors were stuck and every one of us had to go out from a door. Yet, I only realised that there was a police car following us for more than 20km. The first feeling was relief that everyone is ok and followed by regret (shouldn’t have done this). In less than 5 minutes time 3 police cars, 2 fire engines and an ambulance arrived. After the testimony was made and settled the things we walked to the nearest train station and took a train back to Sydney.

I was really really regretted of what I have done. I ruined the whole trip and end up walking in the city the next day. All of them ask me not to blame myself but I still really angry with myself. I was known to be a very rational person and tend to think reasonably among my friends. I haven’t get involve in any kind of road accident before this but now end up having the biggest accident all time among my friends. They were really kind to me and offered to share all the expenses. Talking about repairing expenses… the amount could reach Aussie Dollar 20000… try not to think about that, at the moment…

Whatever… I will take this as my bestest rebuke. Thousand apologies to those who love me and supported me so much… SORRY & NEVER AGAIN…


uhlala

Wednesday, July 06, 2005

My Uni


My Uni - University of Sydney



The Great Hall - The Graduation Hall

Thursday, June 30, 2005

Jaded

Finally the exam is over… and kick start my hectic winter holiday. Feel absolutely jaded after studying for the last couple of weeks, yet there are subjects that got a high possibility to fail. Whatever… don’t want to think about it now.

My brother is coming over here later today. It has been a year since we last met each other back in last year winter holiday so there must be heaps to catch up with each other. Later in the holiday there will be 3 different group of friends are coming to Sydney as well. Thus I will be busy bringing friends around to visit interesting places. However me myself is organizing a trip to go around New South Wales continent with my friends over here. I can imagine how hectic is my holiday but I am really looking forward to it. Whatever… just want to set myself free and enjoy my holiday.

Monday, June 13, 2005

Exams

Phew...this blog has been desserted for a while already. Busy with uni stuffs recently. Exams are starting this coming Tuesday, or I should say tomorrow. I've got a lot of stuffs in my mine wanna write but just don't have time to write. Wait till the exam is over, then this blog will be alive again.

Wednesday, June 01, 2005

The Reason is YOU

I'm not a perfect person
As many things I wish I didn't do
But I continue learning
I never meant to do those things to you
And so I have to say before I go
That I just want you to know
I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is you
I'm sorry that I hurt you
It's something I must live with everyday
And all the pain I put you through
I wish that I could take it all away
And be the one who catches all your tears
That's why I need you to hear
I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is You
I've been regreting since that day. I've nothing else can do but regret. Only if, and only if, I got a chance again, I swear everything would be different. The reason is YOU, really just because of you, not anyone else. However, life still goes on... and I cant do a thing but keep faith...

Monday, May 30, 2005

Show me justice, Indonesia

The Schapelle Corby drug smuggling case has become an issue to discuss nationwide or may be worldwide. The verdict of 20 years jail sentence for an Australian in Indonesian jail is the first time in history. Many things have been brought up to talk about since the verdict on last Friday. Every radio channel, television channel, every Aussie has been following the case for the past 8 months. Even the Prime Minister himself also made some comment on it. 20 years of jail sentence to a person for guilty of carrying 4.1 kilograms of drug into Indonesia… is it too harsh? or it is too lenient? Just right? In my opinion, if she is really guilty I think the verdict is fair enough or may be a bit too lenient because drugs really torn the society. If she is innocent then obviously it is harsh rite.

However, I believe she is innocent and I really feel for her. For me, a 27 years old student with a crystal clear history get caught at the Bali airport for carrying 4.1 kilograms of drugs is a bit astonish. It can be the baggage handlers or whoever but I don’t think is her. When one of the officer wanted to open her bag she did said “I have some…”. This make the judge doubt about her innocent and that was the only most solid ‘evident’ that they got to charge her. But actually she hadn’t finished the sentence. It can be “I have some food”, “I have some clothes”, “I have some whatever…”.

What made me even more furious was in Indonesia, you are guilty and you have to prove yourself innocent. I suppose that the law should be the other way round where you are innocent and the opposition must prove that you are guilty. Furthermore, there isn’t any jury in the court and the judges made all the decision. When Corby’s defending team made a request to check the fingerprints on the drug bags, the request was turned down by the court. And yet, the Bali bombing suspect was just sentence to 4 years jail, surprise??? From here, I doubt there is any justice in this Corby case.

This obsession can happen to anyone of us. So please lock all your luggage and bags when you are travelling. When any of the officer wants to open your bag, if you are clean and innocent just let them open. Let’s pray for this young lady to succeed her appeal.

Friday, May 27, 2005

What is happenning to me

I was in bad mood recently. Did badly in the previous few quizzes. What happened to me? Have to work harder now. Strictly studying.

Thursday, April 28, 2005

Too Young?!

LOVE is a delicate four letter word and always has to come with the word RELATIONSHIP. People start ‘liking’ one another and start a relationship in their teens where they normally get giggle by parents or older generation, generally with something like “you are still too young to know what love is all about”. Parents will then try their ‘best’ to stop the relationship so that their children can ‘concentrate’ in studies. But never the less, the children will try their ‘best’ to continue their relationship as ‘surreptitiously’ as possible. Complicated but true huh???

In my twenties, I would agree with most of the parents’ perception. Though, I will still encourage teens to have at least one experience to have a relationship. Only by experience, teens can discover the complication of a relationship and they will start learning from there. Eventually, after a few years of time most, not all, of these puppy love-relationships will break up. They start to have their own personality and realize that their partner isn’t who they are looking for. They will be more aware of their next relationship.

So, we need to learn and have experience during our teens rather than 30s right? Who knows it might turn out an eternality first love? LOVE is not TOO YOUNG for anyone.

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Tighty

There was this pregnant woman wearing a pair of jeans with a bra top walking around in a shopping centre, showing off her big round belly. I was like.. oh yeah… the baby must be very uncomfortable… I thought jeans are a bit too tight for a pregnant woman, isn’t it? Wouldn’t it affect the growth of the baby? I figure out people nowadays likes to wear tight stuffs, no matter is pants, shirts or whatever… just has to be tight, in order to emphasise their body figure. For those with well body figure I would definitely agree it will be nice. But for those who are toooooo bony or toooooo plump…er… please look how you look alike in the mirror before walking out from your house. For myself…. erm… I will only wear tight stuffs when I make sure that my tummy is not able to be seen…haha :)

Saturday, April 23, 2005

Religion

I saw quite a number of people wearing t-shirt with “Jesus Week” printed at the back of it this week. I wonder it is world wide ‘celebration’ or just my uni’s Christian association doing it. Anyway, I got mad at one of them. NO DIRESPECT to any other Christians, if there is any, thousands apologizes. One of those wearing “Jesus Week” t-shirt guy approached me and asked some really ‘ahem’ questions. Sounds something like that…

Guy: Hi, how are you?
Me: Good. Yourself?
Guy: Not too bad. Are you a Christian?
Me: Nope. I am a Buddhist.
Guy: Do you want to come to our church this weekend to ….
Me: (Politely)No… I am not interested. Thanks anyway.

I was then trying to leave as I had to rush to the train station to catch a train. Then, this guy started to piss me off.

Guy: Do you know you are going to hell if you are not a Christian?
Me: Excuse me… I beg your pardon?!!??
Guy: Ya.. do you know that Satan made others religion to misguide human?
Me: With the things I’ve done I am very sure that I am going to heaven!!! How about you???Have you confessed all your sin??? You better confess it this weekend as you just curse me to hell.

Actually I didn’t mean to say that to anyone but that fella really pissed me off. I don’t think that’s the correct way to convince people to go to church, right? I respect every single religion in the world. May be what that guy mentioned was written in a bible, or it is a real fact in Christianity, but sometimes I think people should respect each other, especially when it comes to religion. Erm… just wanted to make a point here – respect others’ religion.

Friday, April 15, 2005

Grandpa...I miss you...

Got back my structural mechanics quiz today. Felt so piss off with myself. If not those stupid silly mistake I would have got a full mark, which everybody dreams for. Anyway I was literally exhausted and couldn’t bother to do those tutorial questions. So I left the tutorial session early and went back to my home. After this hectic week, couldn’t wait to lie on my lovely bed and have a good sleep. While I was walking towards the train station, I saw a Chinese old man walking in the opposite direction with me across the road with his walking stick. Right at that moment my grandpa’s countenance appeared in my mind…

My grandpa (mum’s father) ‘was’ really an incredible man; I would say every single members of the family idolize him so much. He passed away 3 years ago with 93 years of age. I really miss him so much… Back in few years ago he made a request to me and I feel so guilty and always will be because I didn’t full fill his request. That time he was staying with us in my house. One afternoon he asked me to play guzheng (the Chinese orchestra instrument) because he loved watching and listening to me playing all the time and most of time I would have play for him. But that particular day I was very tired as I just came back from school and I was busy preparing the chinese orchestra concert. That was the very last time he asked me to play and the very last time to stay at our house. Till now I still feel pretty guilty…

Like many others, he came to Malaysia, Alor Setar, from china when he was 13 without a cent in his pocket. He then started his first ever job in a restaurant and kick off his implausible journey. He saved some money and start doing his own ‘business’, which is selling ice cream by the road side couple of years later. I couldn’t imagine how much he was earning that time such that he managed to put his money together and buy a shop houses. He ran a business as a whole sellar of rice, red bean, soya bean… all those grain thing la. Slowly by slowly he gained his fame, status, money, and start building a wonderful family. He was once among the top ten richest people in Alor Setar. During the peak of his time, he used to own 30 lorries. What amaze me the most was this typical china man whom never been to any kind of school before invented a telegraph for business purposes. He also made his own furniture like chairs, tables and even modified a clock to a toy motor boat…. Interesting huh…really intelligent!!! He sent all of his 10 children to overseas for further studies and at that time it was very rare and not every ‘typical china man’ would allow their children to go abroad.

Grandpa… I miss you so much…

“虽然您走了,但感觉中,在天之灵,您仍会祐我、护我,我也会常常惦记着您”

Thursday, April 14, 2005

LOTR - The Exhibition


LOTR - The Exhibition

I went to this LOTR exhibition during the Easter break 2 weeks back. Actually I wasn’t intended to go at all because the entrance ticket is quite pricey, I think it was nearly 30 aussie dollar per head. But then my auntie went and kept telling me how impress she is and try to persuade me to go. She convinced me and I made up my mind to pay a visit with my friends.

The exhibition was really really superior and it amazed me so much. I thought it was a once-a-life-time experience to go behind the scene of this world famous motion picture trilogy. It took them 3 years just to imagine and put together the settings, buildings, weapons and costumes which described in the novel, just in words. If I wasn’t wrong they spent 8 solid years to film this trilogy. The costumes and weapons stunned me the most as they really made all the costumes and let the actors wear them so that the movements are more authentic. I think there were more than 5000 pieces of them. Guess what… the total weight of the costume of those Rohan warriors is almost 10kg and these warriors are actually all ladies whom are the trainer of the horses used in the movie. Heaps still to describe and it is a disgrace that I couldn’t take any picture inside the exhibition.

After all, it is really payoff for the entrance ticket. I think the exhibition is going on around the world from country to country. So if it happens to stop at the nearest city around you, please don’t hesitate to go. Believe me, even you are not a LOTR fans, you will still like it, very much perhaps.

The Entrance

Mutating to panda

It has been a while since I post the last thingy. Really busy with my uni stuffs in this couple of weeks. Just now I was counting the number of assignments need to be submitted and quizzes held in these 3 weeks and I couldn’t believe it myself… 9 assignments and 3 quizzes!!! Huh.. Unbelievable… I am still alive... After numerous of sleepless night in the ‘battle field’ my face now looks literally awful… pimples start popping out all over my forehead, moustache and beard grown lushly covering my chin and in the process of mutating to a panda…@_@

Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Give me a break~~

I am having a week of mid semester break now. But for me, it is not a ‘mid semester’ ‘break’. Actually we just finished 3 weeks of classes and then we have this ‘mid semester’ break and there isn’t any break after this week till end of June. So this is not a ‘mid semester’ break as it is written in the uni calendar. Even though lectures will be starting only on next Monday, I already start counting how many days left before this ‘mid semester’ ‘break’ ends. There are 4 assignments and 1 quiz due right after the ‘break’. Just done half of them, haven’t started the other half. Further more, I am a bit behind most of the lectures and need to do some revision to catch up. I cant see my break... Give me a break…

Tuesday, March 29, 2005

A glass of water

I saw this in one of the forwarded mail and thought it is quite true…

A lecturer was giving a lecture to his student on stress management. He raised a glass of water and asked the audience, "How heavy do you think this glass of water is?" The students' answers ranged from 20g to 500gm.

"It does not matter on the absolute weight. It depends on how long you hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it is Ok. If I hold it for an hour, I will have an ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you will have to call an ambulance. It is the exact same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes."

"If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, we will not be able to carry on, the burden becoming increasingly heavier. What you have to do is to put the glass down, rest for a while before holding it up again." We have to put down the burden periodically, so that we can be refreshed and are able to carry on.

So before you return home from work tonight, put the burden of work down. Don't carry it back home. You can pick it up tomorrow. Whatever burdens you are having now on your shoulders, let it down for a moment if you can. Pick it up again later when you have rested.... Rest and relax. Life is short, enjoy it!!

A glass of water... how heavy it is? Depends on how long you hold it...

Monday, March 28, 2005

Autumn

An autumn sunset - taken at a seaside while having a cup of coffee with friends

It is autumn now in Australia, the second autumn I spend here. These few weeks are seasons inter change period, from summer to autumn, so it is quite hard to predict the weather. Even the forecast weather couldn’t help much in predicting the weather. It can be raining in the morning, cloudy in the afternoon, sunny in the evening and thunderstorm late night, four seasons in a day. It sounds odd, but it did happened 2 days ago here in Sydney, Australia. This unpredictable weather drives everyone crazy in the sense that people don’t know what to wear. Having known that it will be raining and quite cold, everyone wears scarfs and jackets to uni, but who knows it turned out a sunny perhaps a hot day, and vice versa. Anyway, few weeks later the weather will be more stable and that is the time I like the most.

Out of the 4 seasons, I would say I like autumn the most, or I should say autumn in Sydney. I wouldn’t know how much I love the weather here before I came. I find the weather in autumn suits me the most. Not too hot yet not too cold either. I love wearing a t-shirt with a denim jacket or just a long sleeve shirt during autumn, or even just a t-shirt will do. The sky is so colourful during sunsets in autumn. Enjoying watching the sky while I am walking back from my uni to the train station after a long tiring day. Although the flourish lush flowers and leafs are going to fade away I still find it quite nice in its own way. It is wonderful to see the leafs turning from green to golden colour, from golden colour to red before they fell off, leaving the empty leafless tree trunk a cold lonely depressing winter.

Why Civil Engineering?

I am currently doing 2nd year of civil engineering at Sydney University. Although it is my second year here, but sometimes I still wondering the reasons I am doing civil engineering instead of any other courses. As many other people, I am a fickle minded person when it comes to making decision in several things, the very first thing is studies.

If I am ask what is the course or career I most interested in, I would say anything to do with biology. I used to dream of becoming a doctor since I was very very young.. may be since I was in kindergarten. My dreams kept alive till I finished my form 5, before I enrolled myself in Taylor’s College. All the time my result wasn’t too bad yet not very good as well, I would say this is the most headache problem… not too good not too bad.. stuck in the middle. And because of that I dare not enrolled to a bio class; everyone knows, for medicine, you must be really good to get enrolled. So I picked those so called ‘flexible’ subjects in my foundation year which suited me the most while I am quite uncertain what profession to study in uni. According to the counsellor that attended me, with those ‘flexible’ subjects I can apply for any kind of courses, medicine, engineering, law, business or economics etc. I doubted that for so long.. never heard of that so called ‘flexible’ subjects before. Anyway, because of my uncertainty, I chose to trust her…

When it is time to fill in the application form for university, I suffered again. What should I fill in? I knew I can never get a medicine offer from any university with those ‘so so’ results. Pharmacy is not a bad idea but my result is at the fringe of the requirement. Dangerous… Shit… stuck in the middle again. Law? No way. My language fluency and ability say no. Business, finance, IT, accounting or economics? Er… not interested. But I know these are the professions most wanted everywhere on earth. But still, I am not interested wor. Music? Tough question. I love music so much but couldn’t convince my parents to allow me to do that. Some say cannot make big money as well. Whatever… What I want then? I don’t know. I then seek for suggestions from my parents. They asked me to consider engineering. Well, engineering… not bad… sounds interesting… but what engineering? The first thing came to my mind was civil engineering. I thought it is quite good in a way that Malaysia is still a developing country and needs this kind of profession. So, I made up my decision and go for civil engineering, bravely.

Here I am!!! In the second year of my degree. Loving it and enjoying it. I’ll be a civil engineer in a few years time. Perhaps, that’s why I ‘chose’ civil engineering…


Thats me

Saturday, March 26, 2005

Finally

Hie… everyone… finally I have set up my first ever blog. Actually I wanted to set up my own blog ages ago but all this while I just don’t have the patient and determination to do it. Hopefully I will have time to post stuffs here and keep this blog alive.