FINALLY!!!

woohoo...

i'm finally HOME!!!

*big booming laugh*

yay, just went for mee siam at this coffee shop where i always take my breakkie before i went to melb...

wow, it's good to be back home...

yesterday night conked out on the bed...felt kinda hotel room-ish...my room is humongous compared to the room i had in albert house.... but am so not complaining.... coz i love coming back home...

sigh....

home sweet home.....

ready, packed, go!!

yes, i'm relaxing now after the whole morning of running around getting stuff for everybody back home, not to mention the whole afternoon and last night (til 3am leh!!) packing my luggage...lotsa stuff to bring back man...

wow, am still kinda amazed by the fastness of time.... it's like an instant ... one min, was crying when i said godo bye to my mum in feb and the next minute, am packing my stuff ready to go back in june...not that am complaining mind you. in fact, am just downright ecited and happy to finally being able to see my family and friends again....*blissful smile*

*happy sigh*

i'm just so happy....

can't wait to get home....

hmm.....

going back home....zzzz......

wow, can't believe that i'm going back already... i can't wait to go back man.

sent yi yu, chris lim and chris wong to the airport. then it occured to me that me, tiana and andrew will be one of the last ones to go back...sheesh....no one to send us to the airport...hehe.....

what the heck...

at least i'm going back....

home sweet home....

B-U-F-F-E-T

gosh.... i so have to put up a big neon sign on my forehead that says "BUFFET" that can be read from miles away man...

n yes, u guessed it, the buffet was quite a let down if i must say so myself.... first of all, NO SEAFOOD!!!! WAAAAH.... *sobs* the horror of it all man...i had to pay 15 bucks to get a stupid seafood platter man and that's only like prawns and itsy bitsy raw osyters.... i know coz i saw it with my own eyes. the oysters were TINY!!! geez.... 5 star hotel??? i think not...

but what shaleen said was true... u can;t expect much for 21.90. you have to pay the equivalent price for more luxury food i guess. darn it. why the world be free???? *scratches head*

but all the way back was quite fun compared to the way there. we had such a ridiculous time at king st. yes, that's the street where all the strip clubs are.... seriously stripping is legal here and there's tons of it on king st and some on swanston st itself.... and the amazing thing about is they are called these really fancy names on king st. there's the *puts on a fake accent* "rhino gentlemen's club" and "galleries for men".... hello, these names are so darn stupid man....and shaleen saw all these signs that say "new girl every night NUDE!!" and yes, that's the exact wording and exact word casing.....hehe, it wasn't all that funny and kinda scary coz we thought we would be mistaken as the strippers there and we were all furtive looking and kept on glancing around. but what the heck, we laughed all the way back.... it's good to be with friends you can laugh with....

then we made all these lame jokes about shaleen's sharp toed boots "shaleen, we're so calling them eye stabbers and yes, even janice's one too..." hehe....and then, yi qian was liek arguing me about teh fine line between kay poh and curious.....and i keep on telling the same thing over and over again...

"there's a fine line between kaypohness and curiosity but i (meaning me in this context, coz i was the one who said that) have not YET crossed that line..."

meaning i was C-U-R-I-O-U-S.....

but no one actually listens.....

geez....

i keep on telling them the same thing again and again....

but they keep on saying me kaypoh...

m soooo not lah....

that janice peh lah....

i'm just curious about what other people do....

THAT'S ALL....

i'm an inquisitive child man....

i mean teenager.....

can you feel the chemistry PART 2...

*big sigh of relief*

exams are finally over but it ended quite badly if i must say so myself...chem was a killer compared to the last term's paper which was a total breeze....

*thinks aloud* maybe it's due to the fact that i didn't really study THAT much ....

but then again, i actually saw girls coming out of the hall ans starting to cry there and then....

shudder.....

chem will so NOT rule to my life to that extent man.....hehe....

so just went shopping a few minutes ago and now back in my room primping myself up for the super luxurious buffet that we are all treating ourselves to.....it's at Crown Casino so it's like this five star thing but its like this all you can eat buffet for 21.90 which according to tiana, its super worth it lah...

*drools* so can't wait for the dinner and the feast that i'm about to treat myself.....wish there's oysters and salmon and roast and steak and ice cream and creme brulee and dessert....*HYPERDROOLING NOW*

hehe, m off to dinner now....buffet here i come....and 10 more kgs here i come....

mel

can u feel the chemistry???

chem notes:

heat enthalpy of formation = heat of formation (products) - heat of formation (reactants)

electronegativity= the ability of an atom in a colecule to attract an electron to itself

electron affinity= energy involved in adding an electro to an atom in the gaseous state

polar bond= uneven sharing of electron pairs


hehe, m reduced to blogging about chem....

the sheer desperation of it man....

i shall go back and do chem now....

ta...

COUNTDOWN

am i such an easily-satisfied girl??

hmmm.....

then again, i think i am when it comes to food...

that'z why its so darn hard for me to slim down....

but books???

that's another question....

and movies.....

another question......

but when it comes to seeing my family and friends, that's another different ball game.......

i'm not easily satisfied on THAT....

i wished i can fly back anytime i want to....

just for a dinner or two every few days.....

that'll be sheer heaven for me........

*sigh*

COUNTDOWN TO BEING BACK IN M'SIA: 2 AND 1/2 DAYS....

YAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!

internet up n running.......

my internet MB just went habis on me a few days ago...which was a good thing in a way lah...in a vert twisted humour kinda way man....coz am having exams now n the thought that i can go online for JUST A FEW MINUTES is soooo darn tempting....so with no MB and my connection disabled, its like the much needed excuse to study man..besides what else can i do in my tiny room if not go on net, read or study???!!! reading is out of the question coz i finished all my books already and net is like i said, DOWN!!!

n yes, am having chemistry my last paper on friday then its home sweet home for me!!! YAAAAY!!! can;t wait to go home and see my family...i miss them so man..not to mention, my friends....n i can go back n eat my mum's delish food and watch astro n the many movies i missed coz of the cheapo student budget i'm on in melb....not to mention, i can go shopping n bowling n the my friends have already planned a sleepover for me n yiyu back home....

its prob gonna be like the last sleepover we have where we thrashed my parents' room and not to mention the jacuzzi n also burn the DVD player from watching Full House from 12pm til 6am NON STOP...yea, a gal can oni take so much korean movies in one nite but what the heck,with galfriends there, its super fun man....we laugh n oohed n aahed at the same parts....its liek an interactive show man...hehe....n i remembered we welcomed the new year in together in front of the Tv and ate like SO MUCH junk food man....

haha....old times sure do rock lah....n my friends certainly do.....miss them all....

WORLD CUP???!!

geez...

the guys in my house are seriously CRAZEE about the world cup thingy loh.....

every night

all i can hear

is

"GOOOOOAAAALLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

bleeeeeargggggh....

n there i am, huddled in my bed, trying to sleeeeeep...

zzzzzzz..................

p.s. aussie vs brazil tonite....sure lose one....hehehe
read the papers today...the front page is this article "why we don't love brazil"...bias-ness sial.....mebe just for the heck of it, n to piss the aussies off n not to mention, the rest of the albert hse guys, i shall support brazil..... GO BRAZIL!!! I LOVE YOU!!!! RONALDINHO ROCKS!!! (hmm, is that spelled correctly???Heeee....)

shopping trip!!!

just came back from Safeway (it's like the aussie version of Giant or Cold Storage) weekly shopping trip or rather my weekly stocking-my-food-larder-and-spending-lotsa-cash-by-buying-junk-junk-junk-food.....now, m seriously cutting down on the biscuits and nonsense stuff that i used to buy...

now its just fruits, fruit juice, fish (yes, i can microwave fish in albert house since can't use the stove to cook...n m getting darn good at microwaved fish i tell u) and cheese and the occasional crackers (yes, i STILL do buy a bit of junk food but only OCCASIONALLY hor!!!)...

well today my shopping list stands as such:
1) Superjuice fruit Juice (the best fruit juice ever!!! the Immune one rocks lah!!) but this time i tried a new flavour....its called Round The Clock and has ginseng and all sorts of brain improving stuf in it....unoe, extra ooomph for the exams.....

2) two salmon fillets (one for my dinner tonight as m not going out coz its STUDY, STUDY, STUDY for me!!! tomorrow got maths....*panic attack*)

3) a packet of frankfurts (thatz tiny sausages) for supper throughout the week. mum says that instead of eating junk food, can eat proten stuff...so sausgaes are protein rite??? n they look so darn cute in thier packets!!!

4) 6 free range eggs... MORE PROTEIN!!! YUMMY!!!! n coddled eggs rock!!

5) a Jesters meat pie ("Funny name, Serious pies") i absolutely love their meat pie and they say its low in fat...hehe....one up for me....

6) a mini muffin (again, m obsessed about anything tiny today n its onli $0.60 for one...so cheeeeeap!!!) and an egg tart (Breadtop tarts rock!!!) these are for breakkie tomorrow...

then had roast beef grilled bagel for lunch.....again....YUMMY!!

*sigh* bliss.....

my drama results are OUT!!!

*ahem...cough cough....ahem*

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YAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I LOVE MY DRAMA TEACHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HE SOOOOO ROCKS LAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I GOT 9.75 FOR MY MONOLOGUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

all i can say is COOOL>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

in fact, m just too happy to say anything else...

so will just say

I LOVE DRAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

health food rocks!!

note to self: remember to thank mum for all her delish home-cooked food and dad for driving us in the middle of the night for hawker food for supper.

m soooo not into albert house food now man.

GROWL>>>>

M DOWNRIGHT SICK OF IT!!!!

GROOOOOOOWL>>>>>>>>>>>

having a The Hulk moment just now. excuse the saliva over my blog.

so am subjected to food like veggie rice paper rolls for dinner....and don't get me wrong. i'm so not complaining about the rolls. they are really goooood man....

besides the fact that they are darn healthy...

go figure....

health food rules....

*m a health food nut....not a hamster....*

EEEKS!!!!

YIKES!!!!

I'm getting back drama results tomorrow....

sheesh....

I LUV DRAMA but the suspense is killing me man.....

but i had a great time doing my monologue. it was like for once, am free to be another person. it was like letting go of my worries and inhibitions, letting go everything... it was totally awesome and my drama teacher rocks not to mention my drama class. my drama friends have all different characters and they are all the spontaneous combustible sort.... the kind that lights up and just fizzes for hours without stopping. man, u need lotsa energy to keep up with them.

now, am off to do my literature....i think i have more or less decided on the question already so now it's onwards to find more information or rather manipulate my way through the book and crap my way through exams. what the heck, if i can do SPM, this should be a breeze....

hopefully....

fingers crossed for luck....

no, fingers AND toes crossed....

exams...

wow, exam week is killing me and i do mean literally killing me....

everyone is sick now in albert house....sore throat, fever, loss of voice etc...you name it, they've got it already.

thank goodness mum has supplied me enough medicines to last me centuries so am religiously taking vitamin C and all just for exams....and chris teo arh, the "pi pa gao" i give you is very good...works wonders for decades already...imagine people in the last milleniun has used this and it is still like sold now man....proves how good it is....not to mention, how yummy it is man!!hee....

anyways, literature is tough man....and my stupid super large ego has compelled me to choose one of the hardest questions on the sheet....darn me and my ego!! but what the heck. i love challenges and that particular question is the LEAST boring of all man. imagine doing the essay on grief which i have done before countless times. it'll be so darn repetitive in my mind man. "Grief is prevalent throghout the story. it's all about grief, grief and more GRIEF!!" geez, it's enuff to drive me crazy with grief man....

grief....

grief...

grief...

sheesh, can't even stop typing grief...darn it again.

and bio is sooo hard lah. i should like sue m'sian govt for making it extra hard for me man....doing it in BM is crazy and now i have to suffer the consequences. Learnt it all before already but have to learn it all AGAIN IN ENGLISH!!! geez....help!!!

back to more studying....chem tut next.....mei fong here i come...

drama.....

oh geez...

had my drama exam yesterday and it was good i guess...considering i only practiced a handful of times...

i'm just this depressed and insomniac girl

who left her beloved crippled sister behind

because i couldn't handle my over controling freak of a mother

but of course, i naturally felt guilty about leaving my sister behind

and whenever i go, i am haunted by her presence

whenever i see glass, i am reminded of her

..........................

hmm.................

sounds familiar......

the last part i mean.......

while i am in melbourne...

yeap....while i am in melbourne studying my butt off, my brother back in m'sia is seriously improving his english, getting involved in the scriptwriting of Merchant of Venice, mum is doing dad's accounts and training up the new accountant and dad is wel...being dad...he runs around and still does 24/7...busy busy man, my dad...

feel so darn displaced man...it's like...*insert sound effect* cut off man!! geez...

my bro's essay is seriously good....n i shall post it here...

here goes...

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Just after my chemistry tuition on that fateful evening of 25th May 2006, I headed home, fantasizing about the meatball spaghetti that my mum was renowned for and that, I shall treat my taste buds to later. Fast foreword 15 minutes and I was with my parents at the dinner table enjoying our sumptuous meal. I was halfway through my second helping when disaster stuck. My father with that crisp haircut of his so meticulously reposed, blurted out solemnly “Son, we need to have a talk.”
I froze.
What else could I have done? Any son would fear that dreaded line. My mind, fuelled with utmost fear and powered by guilt, paced doubly hard, sourcing for the sole reason that could possibly trigger such a frightful sentence.
Did I play a little too loud on my guitar last night?
Can’t be. The neighbours are ancient from what I have gathered.
Maybe it was drinking milk straight out of the cotton?
Can’t be that either. I used a cup!
Did I wash the cup?
Gosh, the list just goes on and on…
The tension building at a blistering rate…
“Young man…” dad paused.
God, not the “young man” tone…
“The electrical tariff has gone up so save up on electricity!” my dad said in the sternest of voices.
Period.
Hmmm…that did not turn out to be that bad after all. I was expecting much worse than that honestly, you know, getting grounded, no allowance or even no TV but cut down on electricity? I could live with that! Dad continued with a long lecture about saving electricity. Suddenly, the broccoli on my plate did not seem that mundane after all. In between the “save”, “electricity” and “air-cons”, I managed to squeeze a few monosyllables, just to hide my indifference. Dad’s speech lasted around 3 helpings and 4 extra meatballs. Ending with a were-you-listening look on his face, I quickly cleaned up the table and escape to my room.
Going through the papers that night, I was taken aback at the commotion and fuss the tariff hike had induced. I wondered whether it was that snowball of the recent price rises, starting from the increase of Plus Express way toll fare to the changes of land assessment tax to the drastic raise for petrol and fuel prices and ultimately, this. The national inflation will worsen as a result. Mohd Ghazali Abu Bakar the vice president of Bumiputra Manufacturers & Services Industry Association of Malaysia (phew!), exclaimed that despite the willingness to adhere the government’s advice to absorb the cost and not burden the consumers, with the 12% hike to top of the increment of the prices for fuel, there will be at least 10% increase in prices. Another article, however, states very clearly that “Public Not Surprised by Tariffs Rate”. Malaysians said that they will embrace changes and simply find ways to cope with them. With the 12% hike, only 40% will feel the effects financially while the other 60%, mainly the lower income group will only face minor challenges. But seriously, the 60% of the lucky ones actually pay less than RM100 for their electrical bills a month!
However, you wonder, why am I repeating the news? I guess people often stare things right in their faces and yet, simply do not bother to just take a step back and analyse the bigger picture.
My dear readers, I am not writing this article to give you guys a lengthy briefing on how to save electricity. No, that’s your moral teacher’s job. I’m writing this to share my personal view on this matter to the whole school and probably shed some light on this particular issue. We are not just saving electricity, my friends. We are saving the world.
Malaysia, as everyone knows, depends strongly on fuels, coals and dams as the source for electricity. However, probably not the entire population of Seri Omega knows that a little more than 50% of our electrical energy source is a result of the burning of fossil fuels and that my readers, is a staggering fact. The excessive burning of fuels to generate electricity invites nothing but pollution to its uttermost degree e.g. the green house effect, haze and many others. The usage of coals for electricity is as bad as the fossil fuels, if not worse. In our country, renewable source for electricity has yet to be commercialized. Even so, dams like the Bakun Dam in Sarawak, has create so much uproar just to name a few. In that particular area, part of the forest reserve has been chopped down to the very last seedling, trees shredded unmercifully, animals drowned pitifully, locals forcefully station away from their homes and Mother Nature forever scarred. Just for a few megawatts more? So take a moment and think about this, for the 20, 30 years of your life, what have you done or rather what have you not done to prevent the unthinkable from becoming a reality.
While the whole lot of people is so engrossed, pondering why the government did this and that, don’t you think that they are obviously oblivious to the “bigger picture”?
Or is this so called “crisis” a blessing in disguise? A “wake up call” like Rio Ferdinand likes to say?
Let’s say we have a hypothetical family living in current Malaysia and going through the tariff crisis as well. Naturally, there’s a dad and a mum, but they are not home most of the time as they are obviously trying to work their arses off so cope with the tariff hike. Besides, there is a granddad as well, who can’t stop reminding everyone what he did that afternoon when Tun Abdul Rahman declared independence. There is also a typical grannie of yours who is not afraid to share her interest in knitting and happens to wear false teeth. In addition to that, the teenage son who is in fact a tech whiz but spoiled nonetheless. He has a sister too; a ninny girl who does not want to pick up her own laundry because she thinks that she might break her just manicured nails. Now, lets not forget the poor old maid. Your next door neighbour I say. As the plight of the tariff hike looms…
“Restricted time on my pc? Outrageous! How am I supposed to complete my project on animator render and ray-traced occlusion within 06 hours?” complains the boy.
“Off the air-con when I’m not in my bedroom? Uh, that’s like uh, like SO not cool. I will like, uh, sweat!” the girl whines.
“Oh for crying out loud, you guys are lucky! Oh why, I remembered the day when the Japanese came! That afternoon…”
“Not again.” The kids grumbled.
“That afternoon!” grandpa continues ignoring them altogether. “At round 3! There was no electricity! None! Yet, we were running. Trying to get away from those filthy japs…” his voice trailed away…
“Grannie? Can’t you persuade dad and mum to at least give extra time on the pc? I promise I won’t hack into any national security system again.”
“Yeah…and I promise I , uh, I would…uh, be a good girl!”
“Wiffe donff youth fake fup fitting?” grannie mumbled.
“Do you like, uh, speak English?” asked the girl sarcastically.
“Fittfing!” grannie said as she was holding up a ball of yarn as if it was something sacred.
“Knitting?” the son took a wild guess.
“Yerf! Yuerf! (Yes! Yes!)”
“Uh, that’s like, uh, SO not fashionable!”
“Positively affirmative.” Added the boy.
“But knitting was the sole quality in a demure girl that attracts every guys’ attention!” grandpa couldn’t help but join into the conversation.
“But isn’t that, like, before, like, Malaysia was even, like, named Malaysia!”
While they argue on, in a cosy little corner of the living room, a earshot away from the heated conversation, an Indonesian maid sat there, sighing in deep long miserable breaths. Save up electricity? No more washing machines and ironing, her employers reminded her again and again. “Boy, I should have stayed in my kampong, shouldn’t I?” she ponders as she reminisces about the time in hometown…
My dear readers, this situation might happen and probably will. Both parties must play there own role and work together. The elders they should stop turning time back when they were still teenagers and running through the paddy fields without a single worry at all. If you were to run through a paddy field nowadays, farmers would most likely be behind you chasing with a pitch fork. Times have change and they must learn to accept this undeniable fact. Prices do go up. It is not the matter of who is behind this preposterous and asinine predicament. It is down to whether the elderly are willing to accept these changes and only with that, only can they reach out to their younger counterparts and together, they can overcome this crisis.
Like a cup and a saucer, one without the other is incomplete.
The younger generation should also bear in mind that they too have a duty and responsibility to adhere to. Sacrifices is the word here. Kids, especially teenagers should put in some effort in making the world a better place. After all, it is in their hands sooner than they were expecting. Pardoning ominous mistakes by mankind and than blowing the whole world into oblivion are preposterous and the future generation ought to acknowledge this fact and simply grab it by its collar and deal with it. They are the future after all. Why not save the future by teaching the present with mistakes from the past?
So, once again, “public not surprised by the tariff hike”? Should they?*********************

entertaining huh???

m proud of him....

gosh, m just whiling my time away at the computer lab at lincoln sq waiting for my bio support lecture.

exams are coming...........

geez.....

but *grinz*...........

yes, i just grinned....a megawatt smile that can light up the whole of melbourne....

not because of the coming exams...

for all that matter, exams are bad for brain cells....

but because straight after the exams, i can GO HOME!!!!

YAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!

can't wait to go back home and see my family and friends...

it'll be the PERFECT reward for working hard for exams...

that is if i did....work hard i mean....hee...

taht's another issue altogether by the way....