Crazy, Stupid, yet Fun Weekend

Sitting here on my desk on Sunday night.
Lights turned off in the house, except mine, of course.
I might be the last individual to be awake in this houe.
Everyone wants to wake up early tomorrow, including me, but I decided to write a bit.
It's the feeling when you write, if I leave it tomorrow, I'll be writing different stories than this one.

So, voilà, enjoy the story of my weekend.

It was Saturday, I went to work like normal, just that I stayed up a little later as I was having a conversation with my housemate who just came back. I think I slept for about 6 hours, or maybe less.
Fortunately I wasn't that sleepy, especially with all the running in the rain as I didn't pay attention to time when I had my breakfast at 4.30AM, ended up that I left my house slightly after 5AM, which means I had about 5 minutes to station. This means business, this means running.

Work was OK, did a bit of routine until 8AM, then off to decorate cakes.
I decorated cakes with fresh cream and jams, some with colour icings, some with dusting sugar, some on lamingtons. I also decorated some pavlovas with fresh cream, some with fruits and some with pineapples and mangoes. It was quite fun, I tell you, really, rather than stuck in those boring routines.

Finished work on-time, went back home, and I finished one of my novels in the train, at last.
Reached home, took a quick shower, then we went for a grocery shopping, we're having a Korean Night!

I decided to make my Bacon Cheese Bulgogi and miso soup, accompanied with kimchi from grocer and pickled bean sprout that I experimented. We went to buy all the ingredients, then off I cook!
I started cooking the miso soup, after that, suddenly one of my friend started a drinking game.

"Ok, a few drink won't kill me." I thought.
And that was one big mistake I made, and it was only the beginning.......
It was such a fast paced game I drank a total of 8 shots I think, 6 of them straight.
Should have filled our stomachs full before, I know I had some sushis before, but that wasn't enough for this.

And that's it, second mistake, drink a lot, not after a meal. Bad, bad idea.
I cooked the bulgogi while being tipsy, not all that convenient but everyone was quite impressed that it turned into a hearty meal. They thought it was going to be a messed up kind of cooking. All cookings done, three out of five people are too drunk to eat, including me.

My housemate and I slept at 9PM, the other friend stuck in the toilet hugging the toilet bowl. Two left, and they decided to play PS3 and XBOX360.

Woke up Sunday morning with a bit of headache.
Cleaned up some mess and had breakfast after housemates woke up.
Luckily the headache's gone with full tummy, maybe it was just hunger, then I proceed with cleaning the house.

Made some kimchi fried rice and had some miso soup for lunch, before resting, reading some notes, and slept a bit. Then we went to Domino's to buy pizzas for dinner.
Yup, 4 pans of delicious pizzas for 3 people, we didn't finish them though, left 2 pans for breakfast and/or lunch. Then we played XBOX360 Kinect Sport, it was FUN and I sweat a lot.
I think I'll get a decent sleep tonight, and wake up fresh tomorrow for a full day study!

Hmm, I think my story is not that interesting, or maybe I'm just sleepy? No, I think it's boring, I'm kind of sleepy and can't really think to write.

Don't worry, I've got some interesting topics to write, just wait for it to come up soon here!

SWOT Vac and a Birthday Before That

Here it is, times off between your study and finals, at least for most of the students as I believe most Arts students had their exams on week 12.
Is it the time everyone waiting for? Answer's no, definitely, it's the time where everyone waits for judgement, i.e. exams, but most of them wanted to wait as long as they could, preparing self, physically and mentally.
"Study" is the word here, like equipping selves with swords and shield, you'll need them for deflecting questions from your lecturer and counter with your reasonings and logics.

It's now Tuesday, second day of SWOT Vac, many will have finished revising one subject, many will still be struggling, many will be confused, many will be composed.
Which one am I? Neither of statements I stated. I'm in a mix, I'm composed, yet confused, I haven't even START revising, but I haven't struggle yet.
Well, everything makes sense since I only have ONE exam.
So what was I doing these past few days?

Let's open the pages few days back, start with Thursday last week.
Why did I pick Thursday you ask? It's the beginning of MY SWOT Vac as I finished my last class on Wednesday, where I came only for 10 minutes speaking exam, then went home.
Making things fast, I was rostered for 20 hours last week over three consecutive days, Thursday to Saturday. I ended up working for 21 hours I guess.
Thursday and Friday were not any special, just the same days where I would be having another day working the day after. After finish working, just went back home, preparing for tomorrow.

Saturday was kind of special, not the Saturday to be exact, but the Sunday.
Let's start the story after I finished working......

I finished working at 1.30pm, as rostered and as planned, and went back home.
When I reached home, I quickly took a shower, cooked 2 packs of Indomies, and ate them while quickly browsed the internet. I went to Chaddie afterwards, for private screening of Muppets, I was invited by my housemate who had the invitation. Overall it was a good and exciting movie! :)
I finished the screening, filled a survey, and went to city. I met up with 3 other friends and went for dinner at Longgrain in Little Bourke Street, it was pricey for me but these Thai cuisine was extraordinary in taste.

After dinner, we went to St. Churros to kill time before meeting up with few other people and hit the bar nearby. We drank a bit, chatted, basically just relaxing and enjoying the atmosphere. For me, I was reluctant to buy a drink at first, not because I am not a drinker, but because it's pretty expensive I had to work out numbers and budgeting first! About 1am, we threw a little surprise to our friend who is having her birthday, yep, on Sunday. Few guys forced her to drink a total of 6 shots, talk about a strong girl and here she is, still standing straight and smiling, but ask what's in her mind, I think her mind might have wandered of somewhere thanks to those shots.

On Sunday, I started the day with a brunch, or actually lunch, at Fitzrovia at Fitzroy Street, Saint Kilda. I had a fresh fruity breakfast special with few toasts, not really fitting for a lunch but I loved it. Then off to Chaddie, again, but this time, for shopping. Got myself few stuff. We had an early dinner at a Korean Restaurant nearby before ending my day with 3 serials on the TV.

On Monday, where most students should have started studying, when the official SWOT Vac started, I decided to slack around and went shopping full day. Spent $300, hoped that it can be a retail therapy even I know that I don't really need retail therapy for now. I was happy getting myself a macbook cover and pyjamas, they were on my wish list for quite some time and I bought them at last, at a bargain price. And again, dinner to close the day at iSpicy.

Back to the present, I washed my clothes and hoping that I can start revising today. But before that, I'm thinking of making myself lunch. Let's see what's in the fridge and hit the kitchen. Now if you'll excuse me, my tummy showed the clock reaching 12.

Final Week

Yes, this is the final week, of my bachelor degree, at long last.
I had my final classes today, seminar and workshop.
Kind of weird, me being a commerce student, it should have been last lecture and tutorial.
Yet it turned out that me taking linguistics as my last subject made my last classes into grammar seminar and grammar workshop. I still have a tutorial allocated, which should be my very last class, but the time allocated for that is going to be used for speaking exam.

Another Yes, in final week, language students are undergoing their oral finals, that includes me.
I had my listening exam in the grammar seminar before Olivier, my lecturer, continued with the revision. Next exam will be speaking, as I mentioned before, which will be held this Wednesday. It sounds stupid but this Wednesday I'll be coming to uni for only 10 minutes of that exam.

After all those orals, I'll be going to classes no more.
I'll just sit my very last exam in the very first week in the very last day of that week, which is a good thing as I think that I'll have about two weeks to study for a single exam.
And then, I'll be free.

What kind of thought do I have in my head?
Is this happiness? Is this sadness?
All I'm sure is that there will be a sense of relieve.
I know I can hold it for now, but I have a feeling I'll burst into tears sometimes in the future, whether it is after the exam or on the graduation day, I don't know.

There has been many things going on and as usual, I didn't have the time (or the will) to write everything.
Sometimes I wished iPad3 came out and then I'll surely buy it and use it to write every time ideas flow in my head. Well, I might ask for and iPad3 for my graduation gift from my parents, eh? Hope it will come out in December, I really can't wait for it.

Back to the topic, final week, I'm gonna be very busy this week.
Haven't finished preparing the script for role play, I'm gonna meet up with my friends to do it over brunch, fancy huh?
Will watch the long awaiting "Norwegian Wood" this Wednesday.
Will work throughout Thursday to Saturday.
And I wonder what will I do this Sunday? I will officially just wait for finals, only revising left.

I just hoped that this week will be a good one, unlike last week, fingers crossed for that.

Now if you excuse me, I'd like to continue my job hunting for a few more minutes accompanied with a bit of chat and a spice of drowsiness. I need to go to bed soon.

Ciao.

Annoyance and Apologising

Continuance from previous post, as I thought that I'll try to set a length limit to each of my post.
It was about the scene, and now it will be about what I feel, and a bit of the past.

I saw this in Facebook just now, something that I gave a thought like 10 minutes before, about apologising.

APOLOGISING

Does not always mean you are wrong and the other person is right.

It just means you value your relationship more than your ego.

Yes, I realised I've been apologising to him every time I made mistakes.
But guess what? Every time I'm mad with him he never said a single sorry and just acted normally until I don't know how things turned out and things "seemed" to be normal "somehow".
Well, I think he apologised before of miscommunication, but still, it was only once from God knows how many.
It may be cruel and sinful, but if people made mistakes to me and had not apologised yet, I can't seem to forget it, even when I acted normal.

I was quite offended where he just called me, talked normally, then suddenly wrote how annoyed he is with me via message. I would give him a "Talk to my hand" if I'm really mean.

And how he was so inconsistent in stating "how important a promise is" but it can be swayed easily by mood. Now look who should grow up?

It might be the second time I argued with him this year.
The first one was when he took so long just to answer my question of "Where will we go?"
I was working that time and told him how the weather is so good outside and I am considering to skip my culture lecture if we've got something much more interesting to do.
I got no answer, and just questions of "Decide to skip first, then we'll talk" stuff.
Hell he kept on asking me that question despite me asking things first.

And when I finished working and already decided to go to my lecture and sent message to confirm with my friend, he told me that he wanted to go to the beach.
I snapped of course, complaining about it and clearly wrote in a way that showed that I was annoyed.

Guess what? He acted like an adult and try to give me wisdom, in my point of view. I think that's his way to cover up his mistakes and try to make it cool with a "wow" factor.
But sorry, it won't work on me like that, it just snapped me again.

Sometimes I feel that I am the only one valuing the relationship, which I know it is a mistake.
But at least, I tried to think things through without being taken over by my ego. If I let my ego slipped, it would have been about May or July last year, when we had a big fight, that I decided to cut connection with him.

There were times as well when I though that it might be better to keep a distance with him.
But I thought through it again, and try to picture the good times against all those bad times, how I value these friendship.

Is it only me?
Is it a mistake?
Should I really keep a distance after all?

I don't know. Honestly, it comes in a really bad timing. I still have assignments, I'm still confused with my future, and I'm still struggling with my CV and cover letters.
I know I can't make a good decision without a cool head, I'll just leave it as it is for now.

Crippling Down

Tuesday, 4 October 2011

I woke up at 8AM and as usual, I procrastinated getting up by cuddling in my bed until I realised that my clock showed 9AM past. Feeling so bad, I washed my face and had breakfast before going to uni.

It is such a sunny day like yesterday, just a bit warmer.
I arrived at uni 10AM past, hit the desk with a computer for a few minutes and grabbed today's newspaper before taking off to city.

Had some sushi rolls as soon as I arrived in the station in the city from Sushi Sushi, their vegetarian roll was unexpectedly really good, I'm surprised. After gulping two sushi rolls I went to my friend's house, we're going for a jog!

There were three of us going for a jog, Windu, Dimas, and I. We jogged one lap each in Fawkner Park and Botanical Garden, it took us 2 hours for these two laps. Then we went for a quick grocery then I cooked spaghetti Bolognese for lunch.

Time showed 5PM, Windu and I went to the city. We bought skipping ropes.
Ten to six, it's peak hour and not a good time to hop into the train to go home.
I decided to drop off at Windu's uni, I've been curious with what Fashion students do, might be a good idea to kill about half an hour before going home.
And turned out that Windu is doing her assignment in the same classroom as Rica.
I looked at her carton paper and decided to help her with folding it, we had this conversation where Dimas offered help to Rica in doing her assignment.
It was harder than I thought it would be, and I lost track of time.

Suddenly Dimas called. He asked me where I am, his typical question before asking other things.
I told him I'm in campus, doing assignment, he was surprised, of course, and wanted to call back later.
So I told him that I'm with Rica, helping her assignment, he was surprised, again, and just asked me to tell Rica that he said hi before he hung up.

I just realised that it's already 8PM, the clock in the classroom showed it was only 7PM, maybe they forgot to set the time an hour forward for daylight savings.

Then it started.....

Dimas started messaging me, saying that he's annoyed that I didn't remind him about helping Rica.
At first I replied casually, with a bit of laugh until I read carefully and see that he's not happy with the situation. We had and argument, over Blackberry Messaging. He said that he don't want to talk about it anymore, yet somehow keep yapping about it, which, of course, annoyed me.

I had enough headache trying to fold the carton when he messaged me every minute and I had to stop folding and replied to his complaint. He told me how annoyed he is with me. I told him to stop the topic for now as it was giving me a headache.
And suddenly he said, "Omg, I feel like I don't know you anymore, you were not like before."(translated)
"(Ok, who wanted to drop this topic first?)"
"Yes, people changed, and annoyed people is different."
He thought that I was covering that I was helping Rica, can't he think "What for?"

"So if I told you that I'm Rica's campus, will you come here straight away?" I asked.
He answered, "Of course! Do you know what's promise? Promise."
When I asked him why he didn't come after the phone call, and just asked me to say hi, guess what's the answer?
"Coz I'm already annoyed with you, I'm too lazy to go. I can't help people when I'm annoyed, I'll say sorry to Rica."

"(WHAT THE ****?)"
Really? So his promise is actually just as far as his mood then. If he is in a good mood, he'll keep his promise. But if he's not in good mood, he'll just say sorry.
And he still try to be like an adult and told me this and that and "I won't tell Rica about this."
"(God damn it, F U) Just tell her." I answered.

Another new month

It is October 3rd, 2011.
Time in my 15" macbook is showing 6.40PM.
It is still bright outside, just like a sunny 4PM.

Yet I'm typing in my room without light, it feels pretty dark despite natural sunlight coming from my windows.
My housemate came out from his room and we went to living room to watched yesterday's recorded Junior Master Chef.

It's the first week of October, the weather forecast is saying that it will be an either warm day all week with a bit shower on Thursday and Friday.
In this week, I'll be applying for jobs, hoping to secure a spot for either December of February.
Thinking about it stressed me out, I will be applying for Masters degree as well, but I don't really want to do it as I actually am interested in learning other stuff than accounting or finance.
I do wish that this new month will give me good news.

Let's get to the actual good news.
My brother passed his IELTS test, with reading of 9, surprise surprise......
My parents will try their best to put him in the October intake.
I really wish that he can come this exact month.
I do have friends here, but sometimes it gets lonely and I get homesick.
I felt like I want to go to the airport and hop into the first flight to Indonesia straight away.
And no better cure for that than being with your family, right?
So fingers crossed he can come here, knowing that the enrolment starts next week....

So basically, hope that this month will be as nice as its weather to me. :)