Booooo...Wordpress didn't turn out that friendly afterall. It only has ONE....1 function that I want to use, which is 'post locking'. This enables you to lock a particular post, especially when you do not want everyone to see it..only those with password provided will be granted viewing. Other than that, yucks, seems so hard to use...I wonder why Serene switched to Wordpress. LOL!

Well, maybe meantime I will use Wordpress as a place to write my innermost feelings and thoughts, while blogspot will be a brighter, more optimistic place to be in. Wordpress-Hell, Blogspot-Heaven. I hope I don't develop a split personality after this.

As of now, I'm still jobless. There were a couple of jobs available but unfortunately I wasn't shortlisted. Highest pay was $1,700. It just keeps decreasing. $1,500...$1,300...and $7 an hr. Well, my kind Aunt offered me to work full time at the clinic though, at $7 an hr. I calculated, I earn roughly $50 a day, and $30 during weekends. That would be about $1,180 a month. Not too bad I thought. Will consider her offer. By the time I got a job offer from Recruit Express, I might already be on the flight back to Sydney.

December's coming to an end, I hate it. Time in Singapore is getting shorter and shorter. Haven't spent much time with my close friends I thought. You know why. Argh...

Tired...Very tired...

Ok. I have decided to change to wordpress.

www.cornycow.wordpress.com

Some posts may be locked. Ask me for the password.

Post deleted. Trying a way to lock it.

Cousin Hau left for Brisbane today, my family and I sent him to the airport and had dinner at Sakae Sushi. I hope he enjoyed his stay here, will definitely miss him and look forward to his visiting next year. Thrifty he may be, he never fail to pay for my expenses whenever we went out together. His reason being he's working and thus he can pay for them. Really grateful to him for that, hopefully it will soon be my turn to take on that role. In 2-3 years time at least. Hahaha....

Bro got a job already and will commence next month. It's really good news and hopefully he will be a high flyer so I won't have difficulty in looking for jobs. LOL~ I'm not that lucky though, still yet to receive any job offers. Damn bad...gotta look around other job agencies asap I guess. How I wish I don't need to work, no choice I guess. In life, there are many things that you have no choice in. So what should you do? I don't know actually, try to be optimistic I guess.

This week was rather dull. Except for Monday which I managed to meet up with her for dinner. Worked earlier in the morning, and had lunch with Professor Ding and some of my uni friends at Glass House Fish n Co. After that I was wandering around in town looking for a gift that I can buy for her. Luckily Vanessa was around to accompany me for some time. Bought her a handphone chain from Agnes b. No particular occasion though, but thought that the gift will cheer her up a little from the horrendous work she is experiencing. Bought her mom chocolates from Royce, a belated birthday gift. Hopefully both of them will like their presents.

X'mas is just around the corner. I really wish for something special this year. All I want for christmas....

Alritey shall back track abit, to the final day of my exams which is the 22nd Nov thursday. KC, Yusheng and I decided to rent a car coz we will be heading down to DFO (Direct Factory Outlet). They came to pick me up from the racecourse. They arrived like ten minutes before I finish my paper, and were standing outside the room looking at me. When I saw them I gave them 2 thumbs up! A few students throwed weird looks at me -_- Hahahaha...

We headed to DFO shortly after my paper, but sadly I do not have any photos to post. I have yet to get them from KC. We didn't do much shopping coz there ain't much nice clothes left on display. So saddening, we came at a wrong time I think. After that we went Bondi Junction to shop around, and not much shopping was done too. Quite disappointed with our shopping cart, we headed to Bondi Beach for Sagar's farewell dinner.

Too early and extremely hungry, we decided to share a Mcnuggets meal before the actual dinner. Lolz... The dinner was at the famous Hurricanes Restaurant. I have the pics for this. Yea!

Famous Hurricanes
Sagar Blaine
It's a nice place to dine in
Full rack w baked potato!
More foodie..

Levi look like a big baby. hahaha!

Yea yea haven't been updating my blog again. What's new...The last time I've updated, I was still in Sydney, and tada!!! now I'm back in Singapore. Exams were long over, and the results even came out today. Wasn't too satisfied with the results I got but what the hell...I think it was due to the time spent on adjusting to Sydney that caused it.

So we left Sydney on the 24th Nov, on board the A380 back to Singapore.

My first time climbing stairs on a plane!!

Meal 1: Beef noodles

Meal 2: Mashed potato w lamb

Many have asked how different is the A380 from the usual 747s...Well basically A380 is just bigger, has much more legroom for economy class (which is extremely important for poor pple like me), larger lcd screen and the controller is fitted below the lcd screen instead of in the armrest. That is important too coz you will no longer 'hit' the controller accidentally with ur hips or bums or whatever.

Hmm till now I have only met a few of my marist and jc friends. Spent most of my time accompanying my cousin from Brisbane till I got sick this few days. 1st it was flu that came and left on several occasions, then was the sore throat that luckily did not stay long, and the everlasting dry cough. Been coughing quite badly till I feel like my stomach's gonna pop out.

Only met up with her twice so far. Don't ask me how's things. I don't even know where I am. =/ I'm trying..

3 papers down, 1 more to go. This has been one dreadful week. With only 1 paper left and a full week to revise, I have too much time to be honest. If I can study efficiently I will definitely be able to score for this paper. But the problem is the drive to study is no longer there. With the date of departure for home sweet home just around the corner, it's really hard to concentrate on revising.

ARGH!!! So near yet so far. This is so frustrating...-_-

There I go again! Neglecting my blog coz I'm too busy/lazy/whatever. Anyway to cut the story short, I had my first final paper today. 2 more the following week. And a final one the week after. The last paper will be on the 22nd Nov and I will be flying back on the 24th Nov!!!

Finally huh? Yea..finally...I thought to myself. Soon, it will be ByeBye Sydney, HiHi Singapore.

=)

(Will try to post right after my exams. =p)

School life resumes today...damn zzz. On the way to school I had to avoid spiders hanging down from trees. I hate spring coz the bugs seem to be having their holidays, and damn the bloody moths that invade my apartment! Anyway I had a rather enjoyable mid term break, though the study plan didn't really work out that well.

22nd Sept '07, Saturday. Kai Chung, Yu Sheng and me went to city together.

We had dinner at this zi char stall in chinatown. It's so nice that I think it's our third or fourth visit there.


We normally order 3 dishes. Cost us around $28-$29.


Satisfied customers. Haha.


After dinner we took a walk to darling harbour to have dessert at Lindt Cafe. It is famous for its chocolate. The macarons there are almost similar to the ones sold in Paragon.


The ambience is just too nice. Great to just chill there, not thinking about school work...

24th September'07, we went to have lunch at Doncaster Hotel. The lunch we had costs us only $10 each. You choose the meat that you want, and you get to bbq it yourself, adding sauce of your liking. There is also a buffet salad bar available though the selection isn't that wide.

Quite cool bbq-ing on such a big surface.

$10 is really worth it as the ambience is rather nice too.

After lunch we went to walk around our estate for the FIRST time. Apparently our estate is something like the Bukit Timah of Singapore. It's the place for the rich (not us of coz as we are only renting the place!), and there's quite a handful of beautiful houses in the estate. Thinking back we really made a good decision in renting this apartment although it's quite far from the school if we choose to walk (25 mins). Will post outings about the other days soon.

PS(Blogging with photos is such a chore for blogspot. Is xanga better?)

Alritey, here comes part 2 of "Escape from school work day". We proceeded to Vanessa's house after buying the Macarons at Darling Harbour.

Piano expert

CEO's office. Nice eh???


Nicest KTV I've been to.

After KTV we went to this chinese restaurant Adelene recommended. Pictures are shown above. The food is not too bad, just that I think the guys wanted more meat. LOL! The dishes ordered were fish soup, brocoli, some pan fried fish and claypot tofu. NO MEAT!...but the food was quite nice la. After dinner we went home by bus. Sadly...our "Escape from school work day" ended...Time passes so fast when you are trying to relax and enjoy yourself. So unfair! Damn...

Anyway, the 1 week break is finally here. No more walking to school for a whole week. Many of my fellow sg friends have went back to Singapore. I'm sooooooooooooooooo jealous! Hahaha..Bet they are having fun man...I miss my family, my marist brothers, jc buddies etc etc. Damn I want to meet up and just chill with them. My flight back home is on the 28th November. Hopefully when the provisional exam timetable is out, I will find out that my papers end earlier..*Keeping my fingers crossed*..End earlier=back in sg earlier. Wooot! Not harbouring high hopes though, coz our exams start late. Zzzzz.....

Mid semester exams are finally over. This time round the experience isn't good at all as I do not have the confidence I had compared to semester 1. *Prays hard* that my scores won't be too bad. Argh gotta be more productive and study harder!

Mid semester break is coming soon. And most fellow sg friends are going back to Singapore this week. Really envy them man...can go back to what is called the real home. To be honest, I will want to go back if it's feasible. But it freaking cost S$1.4k to go back for a week! Darn...if only there's budget flight to and fro between Singapore and Sydney, I will definitely fly back then! On the brighter side, after the mid semester break is over, it will be officially the month of October. Which means I'm even closer to the date of departure away from Sydney! (Tentatively flying back on the 28th Nov) However, I think the month of October will be a blardy slow month. It is 4 full weeks of lectures and tutorials, not to mention that the studying rate has to be increased as well. It's gonna be one helll of a month. Can't even imagine the amount of stress I'm gonna face. SHIT!

Anyway, Yusheng and I had a "No Study" day last friday after my mid sems. Pretty rare to not touch the book at all for a whole day. We went to the fish market with fellow housemate Kai Chung and Levina, Donna, Sarah and Trish. As usual I have to order the Fisherman's basket which contains really nice calamari, fish fillets and fries.

Was stuck at the fish market for quite a while as it was pouring like mad. After that we walked to Darling Harbour to the famous Lindt (duno how to spell) cafe. Bought some macarons (duno how to spell again) before heading to Vanessa's place to meet her and adelene for ktv.

Macarons...damn good..ok I realise there are too many pictures to be posted. Will continue them in the next post. Tada~

Do houses in Oz land catch fire often? Not only does my house have a smoke detector (most units have it too anyway), there's also a speaker kinda thingy inbuilt onto the ceiling. Figure this, the oh so common PA system you see in the good old secondary school days. Every classrooms have them, and special announcements were made through them, and I had one in my room. Apparently the condo management was running an audio test on the speaker. Darn, it was sure noisy as hell.

This is the speaker aka PA system

This is the smoke detector

Nothing much this few days. Still the same old school, household chores, study, foxtel, internet and sleep. Mid-sem's around the corner, but I'm not stepping up my pace for revision. Weird isn't it? Just feel like I'm lacking the ammunition or something. Hopefully I find back my pace soon. Tada~

Crap. Capital markets quiz was erm...rather tricky. Don't know how will I fare, hopefully it will turn out fine. Anyway, some really serious stuff happened between a few of my uni friends. It was so serious that I doubt that there is gonna be any friendship left between them, not even a little bit. Shall not elaborate on that, but I hope both parties will be fine asap, as the mid-sem is just around the corner.

Friend's parents came over to Sydney and decided to give my housemates and I a treat, supposedly because we took good care of this particular friend. Haha, it was really nice and generous of them because they treated us to this really nice seafood restaurant called "Jordons Seafood Restaurant" at Darling Harbour. The food was really woah, spectacular. The seafood platter for 2 costs A$120+...go figure. Hahahahaha. I will post some pics up later. After that, we went for ice cream at gelatissimo. OMG what a sinful day it was, but it was kinda a great retreat for me.

September is here, and will be over soon in a blink of an eye, due to all the time spend on preparation for mid-sems. The date of departure to Singapore is closer and closer. Soon, I will be stepping on home soil again. Yea!

Ha..and I thought I would be very free while in Sydney. I was so wrong. Most of my time had to be dedicated to household chores, cooking and doing the endless tutorials. Didn't have the urge to blog until just now, while watching the man utd match on foxtel (hell yea we won 1-0). It was due to some stuff I saw in facebook. Sigh, it happens again and again. I tell myself.."I'm used to it...used to it already..."

Hopefully I will blog more often. Uni is really hectic and I've been more and more unproductive in my work. True enough that I rarely go out, but thats not because I want to revise that much, but more of me wanting to save that bit of money. Every single cent is hard to earn, and I'm pretty sure that I'm doing a good job in not spending my parents' hard earned money away unnecessarily.

Another marist got attached recently. I really feel happy for him as he's my brother for almost 16 years I believe. His first girlfriend I reckon. Another one got attached too a couple of months back. Also, the first girlfriend for him. Great job guys. Haha. It leaves me pondering. Why the hell am I single for such a long time? Am I too picky or what? Or simple girls hate me. -Shrugs-

I keep thinking about her. I don't know what this means but I wished I had her company. Close to her at one point of time but due to some incident we drifted. We almost went on a holiday together just before my semester 1 started, but it had to be postponed due to some unforeseen circumstances. Is it fated? I don't really know. Her birthday's coming up real soon, I should buy something nice for her. For her, I don't mind splurging abit. LOL! =)

Gonna be 3 more months left to Singapore. Come on....time..please pass faster will ya?

Gonna revive this blog, since I'm gonna head to Sydney. Mind filled with pretty much thoughts lately...

this blog will be down till further notice. no time and energy to keep a blog running. not at this age and time. lol. cya folks. till then..

Day 3 - part 2

It was raining very heavily while we were heading to Macau, had the vomitting sensation thru'out the trip.
Backdrop was a church, apparently only a wall is left.
Shops @ Macau
Girl magnets!
Restaurant where Alex treated us to a sumptous Portuguese lunch. Thanks!

@ Sands casino

Wanton mee in HK are only served in soup, no dried ones!

Young & Dangerous, part 10