New Semester, Last Semester

Here goes the new semester.
It has finally started, my final semester of bachelor degree.

Before talking about my first week in uni, I would like to talk about my last week before starting uni.
I finished my holiday with weekend packed with schedule and happiness.

As usual, I'm working on Friday 6AM-11AM.
At first I was about to eat batagor with my housemate but turned out that she overslept, haha.
When I came back home, we decided to have lunch at a quite new Indonesian restaurant at a suburb close by.
After lunch, we went around for a bit of grocery shopping.

Saturday was quite a long day of work from 6AM to 3PM.
It was quite hectic as we had one less people working because of lack of communication, duh.
But overall it was quite okay, I got to give tastings to customers and it was really fun.
After work, we got to eat batagor, haha.
Then we went back home and I start cooking for dinner.
We had 3 course dinner with drink.
Appetiser was Japanese inspired cold salad, it was boiled potatoes and carrots with tomatoes dressed with Japanese Mayonaise.
Main was kinda a menu I invented, a korean style dish, which is bacon bulgogi with melted cheese.
As for dessert, just a simple chocolate brownies with ice cream.
And don't forget the drink, an orange squash with kiwis and strawberries.
I was happy with everything, we finished all the food and drinks and chat and watched movies.

On Sunday, we went to Miss Marple at Sassafras.
It was my first time there, and I love it! The restaurant, the suburb, the shops, they're just.... I don't know, can't help but loving it!

Moving on for my uni.
I have classes on Monday to Wednesday. With Fridays and Saturdays work, I have Thursdays and Sundays off.
It was actually really good, grammar seminar and grammar workshop on Monday, it was quite normal.
Tuesday, cultural lecture, it was quite interesting as we learnt about Global Economic Crisis in Europe. It was like learning many things in just one lecture, history, politics, economics, and finance.
Tomorrow I'll have tutorial, hope I'll get a nice tutor.

Aw, I think I strayed a bit from the title but I just can't be too bothered with that.
I'll leave it as it is.

plan Plan PLAN!

It's been 3 weeks since my last post.
My bad, I have been opening the page to post but somehow there was no urge to write at all regardless the will to share.

It has been quite a good life so far.
I've got my results which is satisfactory.
I had full-time work for a week, and expecting the money in.... half an hour!
I hanged around with my friends.
I played my PS3 and just finished one game this afternoon, yes!
One game to go, but I think I'll be buying two more games.

This week was full about stuffs related to planning.
1. Planning my brother's notebook: What brand, which one, how much, where to buy?
I was recommending ASUS and I am expecting him to get the high-end model because I'm afraid the other models will turn out of date later this year. I asked him to check on prices in Indonesia, I am comparing with Australian prices.

2. Planning a project
Yes, I have a HUGE idea. But somehow I don't know where to start. There will be two party involved (Let's say A and B), I know I need to approach A first since this project will not run if A does not show any interest but I just can't think of the contact person, it is such a big organisation and I'm confused. Maybe I'll start researching after this post. Hopefully I can get started by next week.

3. Plan after graduate
I'm graduating end of this year and there are heaps of options available for me to choose.
Somehow my father asked about my plan and we discussed about it.

First, I want to try to work here in Australia, especially in Melbourne. My father told me to take Masters while working, he really wants me to take Masters, I guess that's fair enough.

Second, studying language. In this case, mandarin/chinese. Yup, I used to think that this will be my last option since I prefer to go to China together with my brother and sister, which mean next 3 years! But, oh well, I like language, as long as I don't have to stay there forever it should be fine.

Third, take Masters. Can you see how my options are rotating between Masters and language studies? Wait until you hear this branching option 3! I can take Masters in Melbourne, full-time. But somehow I don't really feel like taking full-time Masters anymore. But what if I can't get any job? My plan was start looking for job early October as I can start working early December. If I can't get a job by November, that means option 1 failed and I need to consider option 2 or 3. Beside, And there is a mix of option 2 and 3, maybe I should call it option 4? Yeah, sure thing.

Fourth, take Masters while studying language. Not in China for sure, I am planning to take my Masters in France while studying French! I think this is the most exciting option! I still need to do a lot of research though as I don't really understand the situation there. Luckily, I have 2 cousins who has studied and is staying there. This is the other reason I'm still awake at this time of the day, I am waiting for my cousin to come back to work to be bombarded by questions from me about studying there.

Yeah, every things in life is all about planning, good planning good life.