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…

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...

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

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.