Sunday, March 30, 2008

i'm back in Sydney. It's been a while since i have blogged. So much has happened in the past week i dont really know where to start. All i know is that i've come back here after a week a different person. Different for the better? i guess we'll just have to find out. For the most part, Melbourne was great. I felt so glad to be back. I felt so comfortable it was really like i'd never left. I cant be bothered typing very much so..here are some photos of my week. They're pretty much all on facebook anyway.

thanks for all the fun times =) It was a very refreshing break. Don't think i'll be back in melbourne until maybe the end of the year. Sydney is home now...and it's beginning to feel that way. My friends in melbourne will always be my friends no matter how often we see each other. To be honest, I can't imagine myself living there right now.

I'm glad to be back in Sydney and I'm glad to be back at uni. I thank God for placing some amazing people in my life over here and i know I will meet many more along the way. It's amazing how you can be around someone for a few weeks and know you're going to be great friends for a long time.

I've decided to go back to my nerdy ways :p Sadly life seems more satisfying this way. I've banned myself from msn during weekdays and it's amazing how much work i get done and when you study you don't feel so lost in uni and that makes learning so much better. It's so distracting though when you have a friend sitting next to you in lectures playing worms on his laptop :p (worms is so cute :D )and a friend on the other side of you who has a never ending supply of food :D

In one week, I have been touched by the genuine love and care of one's actions and scarred by the actions of another. I have finally learnt to accept things I have been struggling to accept in the past. I've learnt more about myself this week than I have in many years. Most of all, I learned what it really means to love someone and to love myself and with God's guidance I will get there. i am slowly continuing to learn.


When you try your best but you don't succeed
When you get what you want but not what you need
When you feel so tired but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse.

And the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can't replace
When you love someone but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

And high up above or down below
When you're too in love to let it go
But if you never try you'll never know
Just what your worth

"We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed." 2Corinthians 4:8-9
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Monday, March 17, 2008

ooo looks like i haven't blogged in a while!
well...since the last time blogged, i managed to get my hands on a new camera so yayyy! the photo drought is finally over :D Hrmm...can't be bothered telling you specifics about the camera except it's a sony and you'll probably see me carrying it everywhere i go anyway :p
so..life goes on and for now i'm loving uni :D just coz there's still a little bit of time at the moment to have fun :D like yesterday for instance...
our after lunch tutes were cancelled and hence a group us found ourselves with four hours of 'free time' . All the pharmacy students have their lectures together so we always have the same breaks :D so with 4 hours with nothing urgent to study and Broadway just across the road with Hoyts giving usyd students discount..movie it was! oh...some people who wanted to go had a human biol lecture and being studious and all (as all pharm students are *c0ugh*) had to attend the lecture coz they were obviously so eager to learn about muscles instead.
So four of us scurried off to Broadway after our morning chem lecture to catch Vantage Point at 10:30 and arriving with 10 minutes to spare..we decided to be cheap asians and get junkfood from coles instead.
our junkfood grab with like..5 minutes to spare.
half a minute after walking out of coles..."HEY let's buy like a box of 4 ice-creams!!"...so we ran all the way back to coles..making a heck of a lot of noise with everyone staring at us wondering what all the commotion was about. that's wai, snigdha and linda in the photo btw =) we're stuck together for pretty much all the tutes, labs and lectures which is pretty cool.

The movie itself was actually quite good. I'm not personally into action movies but surprisingly i didn't fall asleep in this one and i could actually follow the story line. It got a bit annoying after a while with all the flash backs but other than the fact..the whole movie is strung together by a series of unlikely coincidences..it's quite cleverly done :p and..gotta love a movie with a twist =)

With 2 hours to spare after the movie there's only a few things a group of girls can do: take a million photos, talk and make a lot of noise.
You have no idea how many takes it took to get all 4 of us in a photo.

that was like..the 3rd attempt. wai was taking the photo and with her awesome photography skills, kept leaving herself out.

we finally managed to get one.
Extremely high on sugar, we had the best time taking funny photos and literally rolling in the grass laughing. So much in fact..we disrupted the peace of what should be a very quiet park for students to study in and everyone started giving us dirty looks. I should have taken a before and after photo. When we first arrived there were people occupying every tree...10 minutes later ppl were leaving one by one until it was pretty much just us :D

we laughed so much..it got to a point where none of us could tell whether we were laughing or crying. i think it was both at the same time.


they're just a few. the rest are on fb :p
yep...i think i'm going to like uni :D being around fun ppl makes uni fun.
anyway...i've been trying to study chem and blog at the same time. i think i should stop blogging now. this hybrid molecule thing in chem is really hurting my head.
i'll be back in melbourne soon!!! let me know when you're free :D just give me a call or message me or something. I can't wait!! i'm soo excited. 2 more days...well it's more like 3 coz i arrive on thursday night so it doesnt really count :p
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Sunday, March 9, 2008

It was malaysia day at my house yesterday. Mum went marketing in the morning and they were selling coconuts 4 for $5! like...fresh, green coconuts imported from KL! It's funny coz my cousin and i were craving coconut just the night before on the train. And you know those bunch of mini bananas you can buy in malaysia?? they were selling them at the markets as well!!! so yeps...it was malaysian fruit eating day :D Eating coconut brings back so many good memories...going to pluck the coconuts from the trees in my grandparents' huge garden, getting my grandpa to chop the coconut so we could get the juice out and get showered with it in the process, having our 5 german shepherds crowding around us fighting to have their share. I miss those days. Childhood memories are the best =) Miri is the best...life was so simple back then but until i can go back...imported malaysian fruits will have to do!
It's the sabbath today! It's great, coz ever since that study on the sabbath we did at yag, i've been making a conscious effort to make sure i leave sunday purely for rest and i think i really needed it today as well. Went to church for some reason a bit unsettled and it was nice to just be in the presence of God and let it all out =) I love sundays, definitely my favourite day. It's like the day where all your week's troubles just seem to disappear.
Ah well, Grey's Anatomy starts in half an hour yayy!! The more i watch that show the more addicted to it i become.
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Friday, March 7, 2008

Lotta kids with a homesick view
deep down
I know that I’ve been homesick too
but something tells me its alright
I know ill be back in your arms tonight

I've travelled down some lonely roads
Almost lost my way

I would give all my time
jus to spend my nights with you
I would lay down my fears
just to spend my years with you
Cause when I’m standing at your door
I don’t feel homesick anymore
when I’m standing at your door
I don’t feel homesick anymore

And after all is said and done
We've made the most of love

I would give all my time
jus to spend my nights with you
I would lay down my fears
just to spend my years with you
Cause when I’m standing at your door
I don’t feel homesick anymore
when I’m standing at your door
I don’t feel homesick anymore (Thirsty Merc-Homesick)

AHHHH!!!! i just came back from a Thirsty Merc concert. i'm soo high at the moment!! I'm not (or should i say..i wasn't) like a DIE HARD thirsty merc fan before but when my cousin and my brother asked me if i wanted to go to their concert for $25...i was like..heyy..why not! ok, so i missed Blue Sky..bad pris =(
So anyway..the 4 of us (my cousin's uni friend was there too) finally got in at 7:30 after queueing up in a massive line in the rain. I refused to get trampled on after bad experiences at the switchfoot concert so we decided not to stand in the mosh pit but the place was elevated anyway so you could see really well from the back. Then there was the first supporting artist who i thought was actually really good. I can't remember his name =/ but he had such a nice voice. Then again..maybe i just have a soft spot for any guy who can play guitar and sing really well. I love it when it's just guitar and voice... the rawness of it. Who needs all these fluffy bits added on when you have a good voice?! Couldnt see whether the guy was hot (didnt have my glasses on). WOuld have been an added bonus if he was. By the sounds of the screaming girls at the front he must have been.
After that...much to everyone's disappointment, there was another supporting act and this time it was crap. Crap band, loud music, lousy cliche lyrics and we all went deaf.
Finalllyyyy after an hour and a half, Thirsty Merc came out and as expected everyone went NUTS!! I predicted they would start off with Summer Time and i was riight! :D Thirsty Merc is sooo goood live! They're going to melbs. go watch them :p they are suuuch amaaazing musicians and the guy did like..the best keyboard solo..it was craazyy. Summer time, 20 good reasons and of course Someday were the highlights of the night and everyone went wild singing at the top of their lungs. Surprisingly i only didnt know about 2 of their songs. I love the song Homesick...it's such a beautiful song and maybe coz i am homesick lol..if the crowd wasn't there i probably would have cried.
My day was ruined a little bit however..coz my camera died. Like...as in..DIED died. I've been predicting it's death for months now and it has finally happened. Why do these things always happen at the most incovenient of times!? Sooo...if you're wondering why my blog has had a photo drought it's coz my camera has been sick and has now gone to heaven. I better get myself a new one before i land in melbourne. oh dear.
I even managed to squeeze in 4hours of study today =) What a productive day.

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Thursday, March 6, 2008

So my first week of uni is over and i can finally sleep in tomorrow! yayy! Uni is craaaazy and it has only been one week and labs and some tutes havent even started yet but despite the craziness of it all i actually quite like uni :D okay...so there are the crap parts like waking up at quarter to 6 in the morning and coming back at 10 at night but heyyy...it's been so much fun making new friends :D
so..since i last posted...i..
went to choir yesterday! that was sooo much fun. I have never been a part of such a huge choir! there's like close to 200 of us..undergrads, post grads, teachers, ex students. Met all these first years and yeahhh some are from singapore..met someone who just came from melbourne as well..hehehe :D Anyway, it's pretty cool coz we're not a professional choir but we sound surprisingly good. maybe it's just coz there are heaps of ppl but when all the parts blend together really well you can hear like a ringing sound and it was like that!! we're singing the famous Requiem by Mozart which is sooo awesome. It feels soo good to be working those vocal chords and diaphragm again..last time i sang properly with warm up and everything was like during my last singing lesson back in october? can't wait to getting back to vocal lessons again except this time i'll probably make myself go down the contemporary pathway and break away from classical. I think i'm still a classical singer at heart but conteporary is definitely going to give me more options later. I guess i'll be singing classical stuff at choir anyway =) The only bad thing about choir is that it finishes at 9:30 which means i don't get back till 10:30 at night and that morning as well as the next morning i have 8 am starts...so...someone please help me.
Got lost at uni for the first time today. Had an hour break between my tute and lecture so decided i'll go to the med bookshop to pick up a textbook. I had 2 others with me coz they had nothing better to do and wanted to tag along :D The med bookshop is like..on the otherside of the campus but i had been there a few times already and was so certain i knew the way there...but obviously not the way back.. We were obviously talking and mucking around too much and none of us were paying attention to where we were going, assuming that the other would know the way. 15 minutes later we found ourselves in the middle of no where. There was no sign of civilisation and all there was, was a huge green oval and a sand stone building (which we had assumed to be the great hall but turned out we were soo wrong) and by that time we were prettyyy sure we weren't on campus anymore :D i think we were..but i think it was like an isolated part of the med faculty (of which they have many buildings) Thankfully we had a map on us and eventually navigated our way back to civilisation :D
oh..i nearly forgot i have heeaps of work to do :S...i've only studied lecture 1 of chem in depth. oh dear...behind already.
I remember the look in your eyes,
When I told you that this was goodbye
You were begging me not tonight,
Not here,
Not now.

As much fun as i am having over here, there's a part of me that always and i mean ALWAYS wishes to be in melbourne. I'll be there in exactly 2 weeks and i can't wait to see everyone again! :D My only worry is that i probably wont want to come back to sydney after but oh well..i'm slowly beginning to believe that God does know best.
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Uni was so much better today. Thank God. I'm that kinda person where I actually love learning and absolutely hate it when i feel like i haven't learnt anything and just wasted a whole day like yesterday. Today was heaps better now that we're past the introduction and actually learning something. I'm still trying to get used to learning things through lectures. I feel so disconnected from the subject just coz there are so many ppl and it's not very interactive but it's not that bad. It's better than school coz i feel i'm actually learning stuff which is relevant and things are explained so much better in uni and the experiements the lecturers carry out are sooo much more exciting than the experiments we did at school that never seemed to turn out right!
Had my first tute today and we're actually put into groups (it's more like a workshop coz this semester there's a lot of group work) and we sit around tables like primary school style in our goups of 6. I'm in a group of 6 girls...and it's great coz i've come to know these girls over the past couple of days and surprise surprise we are THE loudest group. whoops. but we don't get in trouble coz interaction is all part of group work (coz we were really discussing about pharmacy related stuff *cough*)
Had student life meeting today. Student life is ALL about evangelism which is AWESOME coz as i said, i'd love to get more involved in local missions. The small groups equip us for evangelism and weekly meetings is where we're going to plan the ways we can spread the good news around =) They showed us a video of their local mission trip to Monash Uni last year (which to be honest did sound a little strange coz i'm so used to hearing of mission trips overseas to third world countries, not to huge neighbourhood cities like melbourne) , to help spread the gospel to international students. It amazes me everyday the way God works and the way he transforms lives not just in poverty striken countries but right on our uni campuses as well! seeing on the video, these international students accepting Christ made my heart beat a little faster and I can't wait to be part of it first hand.
Anyway, just one lecture at 8 tomorrow coz my 6 hours of labs i'm supposed to have tomorrow dont start till week 2 yayyyy!!!
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Monday, March 3, 2008

First day of uni and i am sooo tired i can barely open my eyes. Have no idea how i'm going to survive the next 4 years of uni when i'm already so drained from day 1 and you could hardly call today full on.
Uni started off with a chem lecture (it's not straight chem..it's a chem course for pharm students) and even though it was only 9 in the morning i was already struggling to keep awake. 10 minutes into the lecture the lecturer started talkung about influenza and i tuned out..whoops. Wasn't important anyway coz it was all introductory. Lectures i think are boring enough as they are but when they're all introductory lectures, explaining coursework and house-keeping matters and you're not learning a thing it makes them twice as boring.
Had a 3 hour break after and spent it exploring the campus with my new uni friends =) that i would say was the highlight of the day. We walked around trying to figure out where things are and compared to others we obviously didn't seem as lost because we had 4 first years approaching us and asking for directions. Lucky we had a map though it is a little bit embarassing walking around the campus and whipping the map out every now and then. We walked to Broadway for lunch which is the shopping area just next to uni and it's where all the students hang when they're not on campus.
Anyway, 3 hours past and we slowly made our way back to campus (complaining every 10 minutes how much walking we have to do to get everywhere both on and off campus...the advantage however is that i dont think i need to go to the gym anymore), had our coffee stop and prepared ourselves for another 3 hour lecture marathon.
ah welll...4 more years of this...apparently tutes are slightly more interesting. I'll find out tomorrow i guess. *yawn*
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Sunday, March 2, 2008

My last day of freedom.
After 3 and a half months of doing..absolutely nothing, not needing to use my brain cells, living the care free-post year 12 life, the honeymoon has come to an end. I still remember the year 12 coordinator saying in one of the assemblies that this will be "the longest holiday you're ever going to have." Well..it's time to say goodbye to long holiday and hello to the stresses of uni life. I guess I am excited but then again I think my excitement has been dampened with all my friends who have already started uni telling me it's a bore... although, most people didn't like school but i'm not ashamed to say i did...sooo..maybe i will like it and maybe the label "nerd" will stick with me forever :p I'm also looking forward to getting some routine back into my life.
RIght now, however, I'm feeling extremely stupid. It feels like I haven't used my brain since November 16th when I had to do that dreaded spesh paper (sorry to bring back the bad memories guys) but seriously, i'm astounded that I can still spell even. I am about to be inundated with a heck of a lot of chem, biol, calculus and all things medical and how I'm going to cope when i can barely remember vce maths and chem i have no idea but hopefuly it all come flooding back to me sooner rather than later (i hope). I guess I'm looking forward to filling my brain with a bit of knowledge again, then maybe I wont feel so dumb.
Church felt a tad more homely today .(oh no! i'm betraying bwmc already :p kidding) Sat at the front with the Blue Sky gang...well..a few of them anyway, have no idea where the rest of the bunch were but they probably go to Pulse which is the arvo service like my brother. Eventually i'll probably end up going to be both services coz that's what a lot of blue sky ppl seem to do. The service I go to is your normal church service where as the arvo service is more evangelism focused and aimed more at non christians and new christians. However, a lot of blue sky people go coz they can't be bothered waking up so early in the morning..either that or they go to 2 services coz the arvo service is generally targetted for a younger audience.
Anyway, Grey's starts in 10 minutes and i can't be bothered typing anymore so.. until next time...take care and God bless =)
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Saturday, March 1, 2008

2 o'clock in the morning, something's on my mind
Can't get no rest; keep walkin' around

You know what really sucks? When you want so much to just spend all afternoon spilling your heart out to the people who you love the most but you can't. Sure you can make heaps and heaps of new friends but there will only ever be a hand full of people who know you inside out, who you can place complete trust in, who you know will always give you a listening ear and not judge, who you know will give the best words of advice and a hug that will make everything better. It used to be as simple as, "hey wanna catch up for lunch?" and half an hour later you'll see their faces and be in the presence of the best company you can possibly ask for but i guess it's not as simple as that anymore.
It's been a real burst of fresh air...meeting so many lovely people in recent days but for now, it's just not the same i guess. I miss sitting at the park or sitting on the bed just talking about anything and everything for hours and not realise how fast time is flying. I miss laughing at the stupidest things until our make up is smudged by tears and our stomach is aching from laughing so much. Friendships like those are priceless. and you know what? sometimes msn really sucks...
Oh well, i guess i can't ask for too much. I have already been blessed with so much and in time it'll all work out so don't think about it too much pris...



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