Hello everyone, all who reads my blog... I am moving my blog to blogspot... Will abandon this blog after a while... So please visit my new blog here.

Exams are round the corner... the first one starting this saturday... this is my last set of exams for this degree... Hopefully will get through all with good results...

After this, will be graduating... the official graduation ceremony is next year round end of march or early april... high possibility of it falling on my birthday!! hehe... after that, i'm planning to do Honours... Bachelor of Appllied Science (Industrial and Applied Mathematics) (Honours)...

Anyway, that's about my "studies" plans...

About me... hehe... well, lately i've started accepting myself for who i am... no matter what, i'm me... have been struggling a lot with myself all this while, but finally accepting myself more nowadays... It makes me a lot happier... hehe... been rejecting myself eversince in high school... but finally starting to accept myself... it suddenly seems to me like life is full of meaning again... was soo tired of trying to live up to certain standards, living up to ppl's expectations of me... so tired of fighting myself... but now i've finally stop doing so...

I'm still the same me... but i've just learnt to accept the other side of me... hence, to those who will not accept me for my other side, then maybe you weren;t my friend all the while becos the person you thought you were friend with did not exist... but to those who know what i'm talking about and accepted me... thank you! trully appreciate it very much! i feel lighter, not having to carry the burden any longer... which is a really really good feeling... =D So to the ppl who will or have accepted me, *HUGS*

anyway, enough of that... have been really into this song... Suddenly I fell soo in love with this niiicceee song! it's called ÓÂÆø  (courage) by Áº¾²Èã £¨fish leong). The lyrics are as below:

ÓÂÆø(Courage)

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Finally made this decision
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I don't care what others will say
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As long as you are certain
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I'm willing to follow you to the ends of the earth
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I know it is not easy
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I try to persuade myself
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I scared that you will give up

Chorus:
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Love needs courage
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To face the rumours
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Just a affirmation from you
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My love for you will be meaningful
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We both need courage
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To believe that we can be together
È˳±Óµ¼·ÎÒÄܸоõÄã
So that I can feel you in the crowd
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Put in my heart
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Your sincerity

Bridge:
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If my headstrong attitude
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Accidentally hurt you
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Can you gently tell me
ÎÒËäÈ»ÐÄÌ«¼±
Although I am very anxious
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But I'm more afraid of losing you

That's just a very rough translation... But you should understand what the general meaning of the song is lar... I really liked it because it's so true!

That;s all for this post...

***EDIT: I think blogdrive doesn't support chinese characters... (stupid blogdrive)... I spent so long typing up the lyrics, then cannot display... >.<" Anyway, the title of the song is "yong qi" in mandarin or "yong hei" in cantonese... means courage in english... the song by fish leong... i think it was famous a while back in msia... ***

Finally... after a very very very loooong time of not posting anything...

So this post is gonna highlight very briefly about what's been happening to me... been back to uni for 8 weeks, after trip to msia... pretty dull stuff... doing the same thing week in week out... meeting up with Xin, Ju-Lear, Sabrina and Will...

On Merdeka day, we had a merdeka gala dinner here in Adelaide... got free tix thanks to Ju-Lear... went to the dinner with Xin... it was ok... for a few moments thought I was back in msia... can say it's the most eventful merdeka i've ever had in my life... lol...

Then in September, month of baby boomers... gone broke with sooooooo many ppl's birthday... first bday celebrated was Ju-Lear jie jie's bday... made a nice lil prezzie for her as it's near impossible to get her something becos she has everything... lol... Xin and me cooked lunch for her... we cooked "mee suah"... it's kinda like a symbolic meaning for longetivity... Hokkien tradition... then we went out for dinner at Gouger palace restaurant... had a great day...

then it was Sabrina's bday the following week... we celebrated her bday by having lunch at Kowloon restaurant... Ju-Lear baked a tiramisu cake for her... it's soo sweet... summore got wordings on it... we bought a lil cow soft toy for her... which she christened "Bill" to represent her bf Will... hahaha... so cute...

then we've got 2 weeks break... been doing nothing much really... except waking up late, watching series and movies like nobody's business... going online...

on 25th Sept, it was Mooncake festival, so invited Xin, Sabrina, Will and Mabel over for dinner and we carried lanterns... had mooncakes my mum made... was fun... wind was soooooo strong, our lanterns were lying horizontal! Xin's soo funny, she's like carrying a butterfly net... haha...

Ooi Jin came down from Sydney to Adelaide last weekend... so I took him around Adelaide city, then the next day we went to Glenelg beach... Wind was soooo strong, my glasses got blown away! pathetic! Xin and me were looking for it all around glenelg, cannot find... prolly crushed into smitherins... so quickly got her mum (thank u sooo much!) to order a new one from the optical shop in DJ and passed it to Xin's housemate Keth Lyn to bring it over for me! it was really fast, Fri lost, ordered on Fri, Keth Lyn came back on Sunday and i got new glasses! summore look sooo like my old one... hehe... Xin's mum got great taste! lol... neway, wanna say thanks to Xin, her mum and Keth Lyn for all the trouble that they've gone through!

uni restarted the tuesday that just passed... am still in holiday mode... no motivation to do anything, assignments piling up... still watching series, sleeping late, waking up sleepy etc... worst of all, this is my final semester, must pass! must graduate! stress...

so yea... that's a very very brief update of what's been going on in my pathetic life... hehe...

not sure when will be my next update... anyway, good series to watch: "Colourful Life" (prolly most of u watched it b4 if u got Astro...), "Monkey King, Quest for the Sutra" is ok... not the best... but ok... currently watching "Proud Twins" starring Jimmy Lin and Tae Sattawat Setthakorn... both lookalike... not too bad la... but if u like watching leng chais, this is the show for u...

that's bout it lar... series i'm planning to watch are "Survivor's Law", "The Academy", "Duke of Mount Deer" older version, not Dicky Cheung wan, and "Tian Xia Wu Shuang" or Cantonese: "Tin Ha Mou Sheung" with Dicky Cheung... hopefully got time la...

any nice series pls recommend!! ^_^

 

 

Got tagged by Ping (long long ago), so here goes...

6 Weird Things About Me:

1. I always use my fingernails as "scissors" especially if say my lips are dry and peeling, I'll use my fingernails to cut away the dry skin instead of peeling it away... or if at the side of my fingernails got like skin peel, i cut it away with my fingernails...
2. Whenever I'm being lectured or scolded or even when I am walking on the street alone, as long as my mind is idle, there always is a tune in my head playing and my fingers will automatically move as though I'm playing it on the piano... I dunno why, but it just happens...
3. I wear shorts and slippers and walk around during winter here in adelaide...
4. I refuse to fall asleep at night till about 12am or 1am... I find it not nice... unless i'm really tired...
5. I feel reallly sleepy during the day but extremely awake at night... nocturnal some people may call it...
6. I can pass time by sitting in front of the piano thinking of what to play (means i'm not playing anything except for simply pressing keys here and there)

This is sooo hard... i can't even think... people to tag: bonnie, sherry, xue, and yi man.

 

 

kena tagged by Xue... and since i'm so bored plus haven't been updating my blog... so here goes...

April 1, 1997

1) How old were you? 10 years old.

2) Where did you go to school? SRK (1) DJ

3) Where did you work? At home... filling up all household duties that can't be done by my mum...

4) Where did you live? 17, Jln SS25/16, 47301 Petaling Jaya

5) Where did you hang out? err... school? school padang? school canteen?

6) Did you wear glasses? yes... since standard 1, in year 1994

7) Who was your best friend? Li Xin and Yi Man... we were same class in std 5 and PTS summore... and Stephen Ng in church...

8 ) How many tattoos did you have? do i look like i'm ever gonna have a tattoo?

9) How many piercings did you have? my sister has a pair... my mum too, both grandmothers, and i think all 4 great grandmothers too? And most of my female relatives not forgetting aunts, female cousins, grand aunts, their daughters, their children's daughters, and grandchildren daughters, female friends... and some guy frens have one too... and not forgetting the whole female population of malaysia, australia and the world! XD

10) What car did you drive? a tricycle... can't even ride a bicycle that time... sad...

11) Had you been to a real party? i've been to birthday parties... XD and they're er real? all the 10 years old frens bday parties lar...

12) Had your heart broken? nope...

April 1, 2002

1) How old were you? 15 years old

2) Where did you go to school? smkdj

3) Where did you work? ditto april 1, 1997

4) Where did you live? opposite the squatters remember? ditto april 1, 1997

5) Where did you hang out? 4 Kempas, canteen, pavilion, jelutong (rarely), atria, popular bookstore, kfc (oso rarely)!

6) Did you wear glasses? YESH!

7) Who was your best friend? Li Xin (best), Yin, Xue, Sherry, Step-hen Tan, and Bonnie... forerunners of airportgang! haha...

8 ) Who was your regular-person crush? *** secret... shh!

9) How many tattoos did you have? a very tiny cupid on moi ass! -.-'

10) How many piercing did you have? Don't get me started... my sister has a pair... my mum too, both grandmothers, 4 great grandmothers, and their mothers, and their mothers' mother, and their grandmothers' mother, and so on so forth... not counting all the females i know... such as............ hahaha... irritating enough or not?? 

11) What car did you drive? a bicycle!! hahaha!

12) Had you had your heart broken? well yes... time and time again...

April 1, 2007

1) How old are you? 20 years old!

2) Where do you go to school?

3) Where do you work? worked at Polyaire before, in 2006, now maybe a tutor... dunno... other than that, ditto april 1, 1997 and april 1, 2002.

4) Where do you live? Mawson Lakes, SA, Australia...

5) Do you wear glasses? like duh!

6) Where do you hang out? Xin's place, Rundle Mall, Chinatown, City East campus, friends' office at Mawson Lakes campus, Uni computer pools, Adelaide city...

7) Who is your best friend? Li Xin (need u ask?), Ping, Sherry, Yin, Stephen Tan, Xue, Bonnie, Sabrina, and Ju Lear. Basically the last 2 are good frens lar... and Ju Lear's my jie jie now... haha...

8) Do you talk to your old friends? of course!! refer question 7 in April 1, 1997, 2002 and 2007... get it?

9) How many piercing do you have? U want to get me started again??!!! alright, different approach. Does injections count as piercings? i have about 10 then... (BCG, tetanus, hepatitis B, polio, etc... err rubela? kidding... lol... not forgetting anaesthesia, blood tests, morphin, marijuana, codeine, etc. XP)

10) How many tattoos? I don't ever intend to vandalise my body for the next 2000 years... thank you very much...

11) What kind of car do you drive? Nissan Tiida (dad's car), Mazda 3 sedan (mum's car), not forgetting good old bicycle!

12) Has your heart been broken? >20 times, sooooo many times that I'm surprise it's still one piece and beating normally... LOL...

Pics from my birthday celebration on Friday 30th March 2007... in Adelaide Australia... the happening place as so many ppl are coming here this year... hehe...

Me... miss me? anyone? hello?!

Right to left: Sabrina, Xin, and me...

Xin and me...

20 yrs old d...

We like taking pics... lol...

Adelaide "gang"

Clockwise: Will, Xin, Sabrina, Me... all my guests of the day

U can't see it, but they are singing the bday song...

Click the above to see movie... I dunno what it sounds like as I can't hear it from this comp that i used to upload this video... courtesy of Sabrina and photobucket...

Cutting cake...

Serving cake to my guests...

My birthday prezzie from Xin and Sabrina... Chosen by dear Xin... Thank u soo much! Wore it on that day itself after lunch! hahaha...

That's all folks... my birthday celebration... we had it at Mongkok restaurant... it isn't the best place to go... but it was nevertheless memorable... Thank you for lunch Xin, Sabrina and Will! Life in Adelaide wouldn't be as good without you guys around! God bless!

I actually got this from Bonnie... hehe... Sorry Bonnie i curi from u... hahaha... but anyway, take the test and see how well do you know me... I am curious too btw...


 
Create your own Friend Test here

The pics from the Big Day In in Sydney (the thing i attended in Sydney) are out... well, not all of them, but yup they're definitely out... i'll put the link here so u can go and visit the site and click on the thubnails to view the large version... cos group photos lar... have to enlarge oni can see...

Well, see if u can spot me...

Click the link below here to go to the site:

CSIRO Big Day In Sydney Feb 2007

Random fact: Sydney Harbour Bridge turns 75 today...

I really like this place... hehehe...

Check out the post below this as well!!

 

 

 

Hehe... Another update... Ok, it's like 1 week old or more, but anyway, just thought I'd put up something about dear Xin's birthday celebration here... as you guys (Airporters) surely are missing her I believe?? Or maybe not?! haha...

Oh, before I move on to putting up pics, HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHERRY!! And btw, the link to my report about the vacation scholarship is up on the web d... if u're interested, click HERE!

Ok, xin's bday... Sabrina and me organised the celebration on Friday 9th of March... cos I'm not free on the real day... so better than nothing lar... haha...

Pictures:

The birthday cake... Chocolate mud cake from Mitchell's... Yum...

The birthday girl holding her cake...

Xin and me... decade old buddies...

From left to right: Me, Xin, Sabrina...

The cake with candles and sparklers... chun? Aussie style... haha...

20 years old d... Big girl d...

Make a wish!

 Cutting cake...

Makan time... =D

That's all folks... after that we went feed ducks, and went to casino... hahaha... but din gamble lar... hehe... just go look around...

K lar... as u saw now that she's all fine... I'll personally make sure she's well fed and watered... haha...

Wish one day whole airportgang can be permanently here... so we can celebrate each other's bday together! take care!

 

 

yes... finally! another update! haha...

well, as you all know by now that I was a receipient of the International Centre of Excellence for Education in Mathematics, and the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute summer vacation scholarship. This was because I was nominated by my Uni as an outstanding 2nd year student! hahaha... it's usually for 3rd or 4th year students who intends to do Honours... For the sake of easy writing, I shall use their acronym, ICE-EM/AMSI. So yes, I was the only person in my uni who was nominated for this scholarship. It's a summer vacation scholarship. I basically have to do a research project for 5 weeks where they'll pay me $350 per week and the last 2 days, I'll go over to Sydney to do my oral presentation. FYI, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) also had their own set of students to whom they also offer this vacation scholarship, but theirs are a little different to mine.

My topic was Real Options Approach to Evaluating Capital Investment Decisions. If u're really interested, u can check out the link later when they've actually put up my report on the ICE-EM website which is currently still not available yet. Well, thanks to my supervisor, Dr. Malgorzata Korolkiewicz from UniSA, I completed my research successfully. Check out this site.

So what happened then? On Valentine's Day, it was the eve before I fly to Sydney... I was so excited... and also worried in case I left anything behind... haha... slept at 11pm that night and woke up at 4am next morning... can't even sleep... neway, the flight was at 6am... flew to Sydney, arrived at 8.25am... Had breakfast in the plane... So after arriving, the coach bus picked us up to send us to the hotel, Stamford Grand North Ryde. Traffic jam!! Like a typical msian traffic jam, just not as bad as KL lar... but traffic jam!! in Aus!! well, my first impression of Sydney was KL! from complicated roads, flyovers and highways to sky scapers! neway, arrived at North Ryde, again, had breakfast! then introduction session began... all the CSIRO staff members were promoting CSIRO... well, i must say, CSIRO seems a very good place to work in... after about 4 hours, lunch... buffet lunch... food was ma-ma-dei only... after lunch, my presentation is due! I was first on the list... which is good and bad lar... good in the sense, I'm the first to get rid of the pressure, bad is, well, I'm first in the list... if u know what i mean! haha...

well, after about another 4 person talk, then afternoon tea... I was bloated by then... neway, fyi, there are 4 rooms altogether, so there are 4 parallel sessions going on at the same time as there were 80 students altogether...

after afternoon tea, sessions continue... and two hours later, bout 6pm, it ended... we've got one hour to check in (so u can guess, we were carrying our baggages around the whole day!), bathe, and to walk to macquarie shopping centre for dinner... food were all provided btw... dinner at 7pm... it was a good thing i didn't took any afternoon tea, as i was still full when dinner came... haha... well, they even provided alcohol... but me guai chai lar... so din took any... hahaha...

dinner was ok... i can say nicest food amongst all the other meals... hehe... met a few new people in dinner... got some great advice from CSIRO staff members... I left dinner half an hour early... cos I promised to meet up with Ooi Jin... and it was geting kinda late... like 9pm or later d... so caught the public bus... without really knowing exactly where to stop... really brave man... come to think of it... haha... but yea, luckily Ooi Jin came on the same bus when it passed his suburb... we passed the Sydney Harbour bridge while on the way to city...

reach sydney... walked around this place called The Rocks, the first settlement in Sydney... then to the Opera House... walk around it... then went to Darling Harbour... quite a bit of a walk... but we managed... or I managed... haha... I was actually carrying my heavy laptop all around Sydney!!  can't leave it unattended in the hotel room mar... so went to Darling Harbour and had iced chocolate at Lindt's chocolate cafe!! yum! i reckon Lindor Lindt produces the best chocolate in the world!! it's from switzerland if i'm not mistaken... and the only 2 cafes in the world are at Sydney...

we finished jalan-ing sydney at about 11.45pm or so and went to Queen Victoria building to catch the last bus back to the hotel at 12.10am! haha... reached hotel about almost 1am... hehe... Ooi Jin got down earlier from the bus lar... cos his place nearer to the city mar...

reach hotel, sleep... woke up early next morning... 6am woke up d... got ready went for breakfast... buffet breakfast... after that check out hotel... those talks still going on... then got morning tea, talk, lunch, talk, and afternoon tea then conclusion of the whole event... gosh, if there's one thing really good about the organising, it's the food... they made sure we never go hungry! hahaha... but the thing is, we're getting too full! lolz... at 4pm, we left for airport... reach airport at 4.45pm... my flight oni departs at 8.45pm!! 4 hours to wait!!! check in and wait with other people from the same event... they also had to wait for so long... so we ended up playing cards in the airport whilst passing time... bought some Krispy Kreme doughnuts, recommended by Ooi Jin to be very nice... hmm... finally borded the plane for adelaide...

sad, i kinda start to like sydney more than adelaide d! hahahaha... while taking off, i saw the harbour bridge and the opra house soo clearly!! gosh, gonna miss that place... hopefully one day will go there again... maybe work there or sumthing lar... it's the best Aus substitute of KL... the good thing about travelling at night is, u can clearly see the outline of the metropolitan areas... like when i was about to touch down at adelaide, i could see the whole adelaide metropolitan area where the lights were so bright...  so i can guess which place is which...

arrived safely home... though it's exactly one week now, i'm still missing last week experience! haha... time always flies when u're having fun... before diverting to another topic, i would sincerely like to thank ICE-EM/AMSI and CSIRO for giving me this opportunity to undertake the vacation scholarship and to go to Sydney for the first time ever in my life... And also to University of South Australia for nominating me! Also to my supervisor Dr. Malgorzata Korolkiewicz and last but not least Ooi Jin for bringing me around Sydney... Thank you very much!!

ok... arrived home, then next day, clean house for Chinese New Year! Dear Xin came over to my place on CNY day and we had lunch... after that, she taught us how to play mahjong! haha... then at night i went to her place and had dinner with her frens! quite fun lar... sort of like the best new year day i've ever had for a loong loong loooooooooong time... thanks xin!

so yea... that's about it... sorry no pictures lar... haha... yes, i din bring my camera! ok i know! that was wasted... going to sydney without camera!! well, i did took a picture of the harbour bridge while the bus was going through it lar... but it's still in my handphone and i haven't transfer to computer... so later lar ya? if u want to see pics of the Big Day In in Sydney, I'll provide the link later lar k? but i dunno if u'll see much of me... hahaha...

oh and anyone interested in my topic of research, tag or comment or email me k?

that's all lar for my update... till next time...