hmm...

i told myself that i would talk about my new Violet Crumble which is fully in my digestion system now (devoured it in less than 1/2 an hour) and Malte's not obsession but painful necessity of 6 packets of Mi Goreng each day (3 for lunch and 3 for dinner - he sleeps till the afternoon so that he won't have to eat another 3 for brekkie) and when I log onto MSN, I find out from Ms. Su that her Mum is in stage 4, breast cancer.

My mood took a 360 degree turn obviously. I told her to hang in there cos she said it's tough being there for so many people (her job is akin to a counsellor in IACT) and it doesn't help that she's got a big family too... I hope she'll get through this hurdle soon. She said they just found out. I think her mum just found out too... It's scary to be a female sometimes... *sigh*

Well, i'm not exactly enthusiastic about my Violet Crumble confectionery anymore though it tastes SO much better than Cadbury's CRUNCHIE in my opinion. it's less sweeter and the honey comb is smooth and not crumbly and soggy like Crunchie's.
On the way back to my room from the kitchen, heated up yesterday's leftover tuna in the microwave, I heard Malte telling Andrew (who's moving out REAL soon to Freo [according to Nithil] - all his stuff are in the common room. I nvr knew his room could fit so many things! there are like little cupboards and mobile drawers and all) that he was going to continue his Mi Goreng meals until he left SV. LOL...

Yesterday night, when i was heating up my tuna for dinner, i asked him how did he come across Mi Goreng? seeing that only oriental stores would sell them in bulk (i told him that he could a box of 30 pckts for aud8.80 and he went to buy it immediately ><). he got to know from Andrew apparently and the first time he made it, he didn't know he had to drain the water, so he had soupy Mi Goreng.. *yuck* i don't know how that would taste but I do know that the sachets of powder and sauces aren't exactly SOUP friendly... and he said that it tasted really weird and that he didn't like it at all...
The second time he cooked it, i think he looked at the illustration behind the packet and tadah! he got hooked. Very appropriately called the King of Mi Goreng, since the day he beat Kim and Sam by devouring 10 packets (i think?) of Mi Goreng continuously that night. LOL! I recorded the whole thing but they're all in several videos...

anyways, I'm going to devour my leftover tuna with rice crackers (they're seriously yummy and not to mention healthy - yeah i know i'm compensating for the confectionery i just devoured... :D) I heard McD's (or Mackers as they are known here) would be using this idea in Malaysia sooon... the last time i took the survey with that company... er... Something Nelson? oh! AC Nelson, where Shafinah told me to go for, we were asked about the response Malaysian fast food goers would have if McD's introduced the idea of healthier living... Not a bad idea at all really...

lalala

seeing that my current task is to come up with a writing project of a minimum OF 2500 words, i might as well relax a little now seeing that i can no longer come up with catchy phrases and avoid OVERLY FAMILIAR PHRASES (this is the main emphasis my lecturer would also point out - please try to avoid overly familiar phrases) - doesn't she realize that phrases become overly familiar because they sound good which is why many MANY writers use them and when a new generation of writers come into this world, they review the work of these many MANY writers, thus adopting their style of writing and WILL OBVIOUSLY use OVERLY FAMILIAR PHRASES.

And this other point about "your writing should be concise," seriously doesn't make sense. You're asking us brain-dead-at-the-end-of-the-day youths to write concisely for a 2500, minimum word limit project?? it's insanE!!!!!!!! I'm long winded by nature, how do i hold that back and cut back what i say or type, in this case, for my project??!?!?! ARGH!!!!

And how can u be the judge of a FRESH PIECE OF WRITING. it's a very biased criteria really. If i wrote about my life back home and the things which she hasn't even heard about, then will that be considered fresh? or just long winded and boring with overly familiar phrases of "back home..."

Showing evidence of being influenced by ideas that have been discussed in the whole subject so far is fairly easy seeing that I'm going to or MIGHT follow some structures of free verse poem found in my reader..

The stress which comes from writing is really hazardous to one's health. Please do not try this at home on a leisurely basis, you WILL, i repeat, YOU WILL kill your leisure-stress-free period.


Anyways, enough ranting about assignments, will be getting back to that SOON ENOUGH so let me just rant about my day here for the rest of this post. there's no stress involved because i'm letting it ALLLLLL OUUUUUTTTTT!!!

I just finished one Heong Peah :D YC gave Chris and I one each - she bought it from Chan Brothers - a chinese grocer which is very very far even from the bus stand. I will rarely go there....

No classes but my mind was playing with the several ideas i had for this writing project n studying for Aus cinema (exam on thurs) is a CHORE.!!!! especially when there's so much information on each film. i feel like i'm reading a film review rather than theories and facts.. @@
oh well...

MY main concern is the assignment (look above) and my journal... T_T
I thought writing journals was going to be fun!! it isn't especially when you've got criteria to hold you back and make sure you write with those specific points. ugh.....

Dinner today was a simple sandwich of scrambled eggys with mushroom and cheese..
n hey! i'm still hungry... Tummy piling on the layers.. so unhealthy.. but i can't help it...
YC said when she went back to kl two weeks ago, she felt so hot (as we're more accustomed to the weather here already - windy and cold even when there is sun) and had less cravings.. hmm..
I wonder why....

can't wait for this sem to be over... i wanna be taken on tour in Victoria Park.
Regi lives there. n i will be staying over at her house for a night on Monday (june 2) while she brings me around her area and go get ITALIAN WOOD STOVE PIZZA. SWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEETTTT!!!
then when i get back to SV, i continue my studying for narrative open book test (YEA!) on friday June 6.


Ugh... the weather for the past two days have been so chilly that i wear socks into the kitchen.. i don't want to wear my slipper socks - the floor has gooey substances and god knows what else on it.. YUCK!

i guess i better go wash up and maybe munch a little bit more to keep me awake. Might go see my lecturer tomorrow to seek her advice on the lil piece of writing i'm working on at the moment.
GAMBARRE!

Pictures long overdue...

hey Pa, Mi and u5 :P

Here are some pictures of Flat 3, Murdoch University Village.
(click on the image for a better view)...



Basically, this is how the flat looks when you stand in the common room and take this shot. The brown door nearest to you is the ladies', followed by the store room (where the mops, broom, vaccuum cleaner and more are) and is followed by the gents' and then rooms 8, 7 and 6 which is the room closest to the main door of the flat. MY room is the closest to you on the left, which is also the closest to the common room. Thus, my decision to get a room change is pretty obvious.



And here's the Common Room (when it is untouched and clean -.-''). Our sofas are really comfy so it's not impossible to doze off when you're tired. Our TV is courtesy of our seniors who have left the flat before we inhabited it.



Here's the view from our Common Room looking through one of our sliding glass doors and windows. Lovely isn't it? I took this today so if your eye is sharp enough, you would notice the difference in lighting when you compare this picture to the one above. Today's pretty sunny and it illuminates the trees and fallen leaves beautifully. And oh! see those chairs outside? The drinking hooligans are the ones who take it out from under the dining table and out there to sit and drink and make noise till I feel like killing them in the wee hours of the morning *fumes* This sliding door and the other one near the kitchen, look below, are the main exit and entrance doors of our flat. Only Megan and Nithil use the flat's main door cos it's more convenient for them.



And THIS is our dining table for 6. It usually has plastics bags and boxes of beer and other cans of liquor and liquour but come inspection periods, it's clean!! I've only sat at the table a few times (countable) and eat my meals plus watch TV but nowadays, I sit on the couch, and eat my potatoes. Get it? "Couch Potato". Lol! (ok, lame joke).


This is the view from the other sliding door which is very near the kitchen. Usually Marve, Jon's 'adopted' pet Quindah (it's an endangered species in Perth), would come around sometimes and look for food for its lil ones. It's like a bigger version of a mole + rat and it's pretty fuzzy looking. Tiza still gets freaked out whenever she sees it crossing her path in the flat. lol. The flat down the path is Flat 8, where Christiana lives in. You see the second window from the left? That's her room. Lol.


And NOW we enter the kitchen area. Looks so clean eh? It was horrible before this... REALLY horrible.. will put up the pic at the end of the post when my mobile has finished charging its batteries.. From here you can see the rubbish bin (which I personally took out to wash it inside out because the smell and remnants of fermented beer was turning into 'something' and the smell... I couldn't bear it. So yeah, i Washed it. Then someone's bag is on the floor (it's not THAT CLEAN) and you see the white grill and oven. And each one of us picks a cupboard with shelves to put our stuff; groceries, and appliances if needed.
oh! I got to know that Jon is the one who provides the pots in our kitchen. I always thought that there were provided by the Student Village.. @@

Those fridges on the left are where we store our raw stuff and freeze the necessary ones. like Duh... I chose the cabinets under the stove cos it was the only one which I could reach and there were none left besides this one, so I occupied it. Might change storage cabinets once the new semester starts. And I think I wanna change fridges too. The one protruding out a lil bit more is a bigger fridge and looking at the amount of stuff I buy, the fridge i'm occupying now with the lack of space on my shelves and all.. is just too packed i would say...


And TA-DAH...


THIS was how bad out rubbish bin was plus look at the height of the recyclable stuff - it has never been so bad!!!!!!! but yeah, it has happened.. that's all that matters...

RIDICULOUS!

You know the whole perception that, “things will be better overseas” when you do a comparison with what you have back home and the yearning for better things to come when you’re in some place different? I’m sorry guys and gals but THAT doesn’t always happen... especially when you’re living where I am right now.

Perth, the most isolated city in the world – quoted from an unknown website I stumbled across randomly over Google...

Let us now narrow the scope of the focus of my ranting now and it is none other than the UNI I go to..

Back in Malaysia, the lecturers may not always deliver the most interesting lectures nor do they know what they’re talking about most of the time but we get compensation with FREE WIRELESS INTERNET CONNECTION and FASTER CONNECTION (mind you), print quota of about 300 pages per semester (print B&W or coloured pages till your hearts content y’all!) AND we are able to see our lecturers anytime of the day (as long as they’re still in college and they’re at their desks).

Even when I had all the above, I still wasn’t satisfied...

NOW...

I have to PAY for internet connection – costs differ with webcam and headphone usage, to print and to photocopy stuff == here, there isn’t such a thing as making photocopies of books. NO BOOKSHOP WILL LET YOU DO IT; it’s against the law, simple as that. Food choices here are less than satisfactory and the Asian foods here aren’t exactly Chinese type of foods to begin with. [They’ve all been Australianized.... There is NO PROPER VEGGIE!! There are only cubed potatoes with long beans. And THAT’s the only type of VEGGIE! The rest of the dishes are all meat!!!!! –chicken cooked in 5 different style – bbq, honey, crispy, lemon and soya sauce.].

I’m living on campus – the admin of the accommodation is awful...

For example, my heater... the most recent of my complaints... The guy came and took it from me yesterday and said that he would bring it back LATER. If he had said, “I’ll bring it back in a few days’ time” – i would totally understand and give him his time... And today, I went to ask for my heater at 2.40p.m. but he was out for lunch. Fair enough – A lady at the reception took my name, flat number and room number and said that she would notify him once he gets back from lunch. At 4.10 p.m. I go to the admin office and guess what another lady tells me?

“Paul went back already”.

Me: (I stood there jaw dropped halfway and I explained that I got someone to pass him a note after he had come back from lunch about my heater and all and guess what she replies...)

She: You come back tomorrow at 8.30a.m.

Me: ...

I’m fuming!!!!!!!!!!!!! WTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m going to email him again now, asking him when exactly is my heater coming back. I really don’t care if the people at the office hate me for complaining but it’s because they’re not doing their designated jobs which result in unsatisfied student customers.

ARGH!!!!!!! n i tot college back home was bad....

Assignments galore. (pun intended)

Summer's over! but daylight saving time isn't just yet. Autumn's here.. well unofficially.
First thing's first, Thanks Mi for the recipes :D

Assignments assignments assignments..
Will update this blog after i'm done with my work,.. hopefully...

Fire scare..

The most recent of events was last night's lil fire scare.. It was already 12a.m. + and my common room, all of a sudden, became real quiet so i thought, "This is sweet...". SO I casually walked out to my bathroom when I heard Megan at the door shouting out to Tiza, who had just come home from work, to evacuate. And there I was, my body halfway into the bathroom with my head sticking out and looking at Megan for quite a bit while she was still repeating the words, "C'mon get out now. They told me to" and she kept signalling with her hand to come out. and I asked her,"What for?" >< I guess I was just really sleepy at that time.. Then Tiza came out and only then did I realise that something was amiss.

Apparently someone left chicken cooking on their stove while they dozed off - in flat 6 i think ><

I was in my shorts and tee and it was freezing cold!!! I called Chris to tell her and she immediately came out with a jacket for me :D Thankies Chris.. *hugs*
WE waited outside for approximately 10 minutes before we were allowed to go back in..
"SO drama" -as we Malaysians would say..

And i'm liking the floor alot these days.. Even now, i'm using my laptop while I sit on the floor.. I don't know why.. IT's more comfy than the chair they provide here THAT's for sure..

Before the fire scare, Chris, Jayne, Azim and myself were at THE HOUSE ( occupants: Jason, Sid, YC and Ricky) to have home cook dinner courtesy of Sid's mum. She cooked rice to eat with ayam masak merah (pedas siut!) and Ayam Kicap specially for YC cos she cannot withstand spicy food (Hongkie girl) plus Ox tail soup and stir fry vegetables. There was even Neapolitan ice cream for dessert.. :D *slurp*

Oh! and his parents brought The Star from back home too.. and it was a Sunday paper so imagine the braised duck and tau foo far pictures we saw... *faint* it was unbearable... Unattainable!! BAWL! Sid's dad kept laughing at us cos we were so deprived of Malaysian food that we tried our best to block these images from passing our eyes..
*close eyes with hands*

Today i'm suppose to read my Frankenstein book - the 1818 century text @@ So mind boggling... Assignment deadlines are nearing... T_T no!!!!!!!!!
Cooked bacon n egg to eat with two pieces of bread and today's the day i opened my Heinz ketchup too!! In australia, they don't sell many ketchup brands cos everyone here eats tomato SAUCE - watery as hell .. *eee...* So Heinz is the only ketchup brand.. And I also boiled one bowl of corn.. *bloated* it was a good breakfast :P

I gotto start drafting my story for tomorrow's class.. I need to provide at least two drafts..., I only have one so far!!! T_T
This is not goood....... -.-


Wish me luck to get motivated and inspired.

Beach Picnic

Well, not much has been happening except that the girls and myself went on a Beach Picnic organized by the Student Village yesterday.

Am finding it a bit overwhelming to do the Narrative subject but I've already made myself go through with it by purchasing the books so I will do my best to cope with it. :D

Anyways, according to Phang who also lives in the SV, he said that we actually paid aud160 - event fees. All of us were shocked to hear that.. So from now on, we will go for all the events which provide food and drink.. I mean, c'mon, AUd 160!!!

Just looked thru facebook and I'll add some more pictures which was taken with Jayne's camera :D

AHAHAAHHAHA
this morning.. I went through the common room to go to the laundry area and the door was closed. When I opened it, i only heard the TV so I thought I'd close the door quietly and as I neared the kitchen, one of my flatmates, Sam, was dancing his way out of the kitchen. LOL. It is a good workout in the morning ^^

yesterday...

i wanted to blog as soon as the day ended but heck, i was too tired to sit up in front of my comp to type anything anymore..

Yesterday morning started out great cos I slept soundly the whole night :D
Woke up two hours after my alarm rang and sprung out of bed at about 10.30a.m. to do my journal.. Today, i'm suppose to read my week 1 readings... *sigh* so many pages of I'm not sure what...

I did my duty today - the GENTS. I'm not kidding! i sucked it up and did my best and it's, sorta, spotless :D Mum must be so amazed seeing that I don't even do house chores at home. lol.

Later, i'll b going to Uni to meet SHima for my Auzzie Cinema notes...