Gosh, when was the last time I wrote here? *didn't have the courage to check*
Perhaps it's almost one month since my last post!
Well, I wrote today because I felt guilty not posting anything despite many updates I could have written.
Anyway, I won't give any of those updates yet.
Besides, it's almost Christmas, why don't we talk about it instead?
However, I haven't really the urge to write, I need to wake up at 3.30am tomorrow for work.
Due to Xmas Eve, there will be many people doing grocery shopping and it will be massive!
I was planning to take my sick leave as I'm still having cough and short breath....
But what can I say? My manager has been kind enough to give me annual leave and I still need to take one more for IELTS test!
At least I can still work, I just hope that I'll be recovered tomorrow, there are long list of things I gotta do once I am healthy.
Oh well, maybe that's all for now, I'm a little bit sleepy so I'll use this chance to sleep!
Merry Christmas everyone.
Buon Natale.
Joyeux Noël
メリ クリスマス
Selamat Hari Natal
:)
Friday, December 23, 2011
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Change in You, Change in Me, Change in Us
Time flows.
Just like cruising on a river, sceneries look the same yet different.
I didn't realise the length of my journey until I look back.
There are people who cruise much faster, leaving me behind.
There are people who cruise much slower, being left behind.
There are people who cruise with me, but until when we'll be side by side?
It's easy to see the change in others.
Yet I can't help to feel that I'm still the same ol' me somehow.
I saw my pictures years ago.
There is one album where I was a kid, I definitely changed both physically and mentally.
There is one album where I was still in Indonesia, got me a reminiscence of my high school life, and I know I changed.
There is one album where I was in College, and I know I changed as well.
Then there is this album where I was in University, just one or two years apart from the present me right now. I know my look changed a bit, but personality-wise, did I change?
I didn't realise any, until I saw a mirror and I saw my reflection there.
That person in the mirror told me, "You changed."
It struck to me, I was silent for a few second, my mind was processing and comparing the "Me" now and "Me" in the past.
It is true that I definitely change, but by how much? How different I am compared to I was?
The room was silent but between me and the guy in mirror there were some noise.
We weren't arguing, neither that we were discussing.
I was merely him telling me story in speed faster than light which explained to me years of stories in just seconds. It was just like a one-way conversation, he didn't respond to any I said, he just kept on telling these stories.
"How good the change was? And how bad?"
"How different I am now?"
With all our conversation, it was still not enough to find out.
It's because we're dealing with the present, you can't judge any in the present and the future, you can only judge the past.
You'll find your answers if it has turned into past.
So I just smiled and told him, "I won't regret my past, otherwise I'll be denying everything I have at the moment."
Then he just smiled, his first respond to me since he started his story, and said, "See how much you've changed now. I can see a little bit of regret, but that's fine. I can see you are grateful with all you have now. I can see you not denying your past anymore."
He tried to pat my head, but unfortunately his hand couldn't reach over the mirror. Seeing that, we just giggled a little and put our hands together in the border between reality and the mirror. "We changed."
I'll close my eyes.
I'll calm myself
I'll make new resolutions.
And when I open my eyes, there will be another brand new me, changed from the boy who was here minutes ago.......
Just like cruising on a river, sceneries look the same yet different.
I didn't realise the length of my journey until I look back.
There are people who cruise much faster, leaving me behind.
There are people who cruise much slower, being left behind.
There are people who cruise with me, but until when we'll be side by side?
It's easy to see the change in others.
Yet I can't help to feel that I'm still the same ol' me somehow.
I saw my pictures years ago.
There is one album where I was a kid, I definitely changed both physically and mentally.
There is one album where I was still in Indonesia, got me a reminiscence of my high school life, and I know I changed.
There is one album where I was in College, and I know I changed as well.
Then there is this album where I was in University, just one or two years apart from the present me right now. I know my look changed a bit, but personality-wise, did I change?
I didn't realise any, until I saw a mirror and I saw my reflection there.
That person in the mirror told me, "You changed."
It struck to me, I was silent for a few second, my mind was processing and comparing the "Me" now and "Me" in the past.
It is true that I definitely change, but by how much? How different I am compared to I was?
The room was silent but between me and the guy in mirror there were some noise.
We weren't arguing, neither that we were discussing.
I was merely him telling me story in speed faster than light which explained to me years of stories in just seconds. It was just like a one-way conversation, he didn't respond to any I said, he just kept on telling these stories.
"How good the change was? And how bad?"
"How different I am now?"
With all our conversation, it was still not enough to find out.
It's because we're dealing with the present, you can't judge any in the present and the future, you can only judge the past.
You'll find your answers if it has turned into past.
So I just smiled and told him, "I won't regret my past, otherwise I'll be denying everything I have at the moment."
Then he just smiled, his first respond to me since he started his story, and said, "See how much you've changed now. I can see a little bit of regret, but that's fine. I can see you are grateful with all you have now. I can see you not denying your past anymore."
He tried to pat my head, but unfortunately his hand couldn't reach over the mirror. Seeing that, we just giggled a little and put our hands together in the border between reality and the mirror. "We changed."
I'll close my eyes.
I'll calm myself
I'll make new resolutions.
And when I open my eyes, there will be another brand new me, changed from the boy who was here minutes ago.......
Highlight the Future
It's been more than 4 years since I came to Australia to study.
At last it has come to an end, not that I've seen my final result yet but yeah I know I did well.
There has been many things happening this year, even if 2011 has less than two months left, I know there are still heaps to come.
Let's see the future that is already foreseen as the highlight for this remaining time....
1. I'm going to Cairns with my housemates this Sunday, arriving back in Melbourne on Thursday night.
2. My brother's coming next week, Saturday to be exact. I'm so thrilled, I'm so happy I can't really express it with words, I've been longing for a family member to come to Melbourne.
3. French Festival (Paris to Provence) [25th-27th November 2011]. Yup, I will surely come for this one, I will drag my brother here along with my friends, it's gonna be merry!
4. On Monday, I'm going to Gold Coast with my brother and 3 friends. Three nights should be enough to play there, too bad I need to work on Friday, otherwise I would be more than happy to extend our stay.
5. My parents are coming here on 10th December to attend my graduation which will be on 15th! I'm not too excited with the graduation itself, I'm much more happier to spend family time together, too bad my sister can't come due to exam.
6. There will be Xmas Eve and New Year Eve Party at a friend's house, he already asked me to vacate my time on those two days.
There will be lots more going on, those are just the highlights, I will help my brother find a job as he'll start uni in February, I will look for a job myself, I hope I can get one before this year end. I also need to prepare for my visa application, fingers crossed on that one.
At last it has come to an end, not that I've seen my final result yet but yeah I know I did well.
There has been many things happening this year, even if 2011 has less than two months left, I know there are still heaps to come.
Let's see the future that is already foreseen as the highlight for this remaining time....
1. I'm going to Cairns with my housemates this Sunday, arriving back in Melbourne on Thursday night.
2. My brother's coming next week, Saturday to be exact. I'm so thrilled, I'm so happy I can't really express it with words, I've been longing for a family member to come to Melbourne.
3. French Festival (Paris to Provence) [25th-27th November 2011]. Yup, I will surely come for this one, I will drag my brother here along with my friends, it's gonna be merry!
4. On Monday, I'm going to Gold Coast with my brother and 3 friends. Three nights should be enough to play there, too bad I need to work on Friday, otherwise I would be more than happy to extend our stay.
5. My parents are coming here on 10th December to attend my graduation which will be on 15th! I'm not too excited with the graduation itself, I'm much more happier to spend family time together, too bad my sister can't come due to exam.
6. There will be Xmas Eve and New Year Eve Party at a friend's house, he already asked me to vacate my time on those two days.
There will be lots more going on, those are just the highlights, I will help my brother find a job as he'll start uni in February, I will look for a job myself, I hope I can get one before this year end. I also need to prepare for my visa application, fingers crossed on that one.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Life Lecture
Today's the day before my exam, the one and only.
I did some laundry as it was sunny this morning.
Had lunch with my friend, went over to a cafe to have coffee and dessert, had some fruits at home.
Well, it was just some kind of every day activity, might be boring if that's all, I won't bother to write anything anyway.
It happened just now, this evening, when my brother told me that he's coming end of this month.
He was booking a ticket, didn't buy it as he hasn't finished his visa application.
He still need to do medical check-up before his visa can be granted.
So we were discussing about when he should arrive in Melbourne.
He told me he's coming on 26th Nov - "Oh no, that's when the French Festival is!"
"How about 25th?"
"Erm, no, flights are full on 24th, so I can't arrive on 25th, but I can come on 24th...."
"(Another "Oh no!") Erm, can't do....."
And conversation went around talking about him can arrive on either 25th or 26th and me planning on taking him along to Gold Coast on 28th. It was okay until my father joined the conversation. "I had a baaaaddd feeling about this...." And here goes, sometimes even my hunches can be right.
"So you're going to Cairns, and the week after that you're going to Gold Coast???" my dad asked in the middle of our 'soon-to-be argument' conversation, things have been heating up for quite awhile now.
"(S**t, s**t, S**T! I wasn't really planning on telling him about it, at least for now....)"
And he started lecturing me, about my past mistakes and stuffs.
I couldn't think that straight anymore, can only stare on his hordes of sentences he threw at me at once. I couldn't even concentrate on my exercises I was doing anymore. Then I realised some kind of heat on my ears, I can tell that they are bright red, it feels like my father's words were said right next to my ears directly.
Well, can't do anything anymore, I was too excited on going for trips and whoever mentioned going to someplace interesting, I just can't help but fit things to my schedule, my bad habit for sure. This is when you are wrong when you plan ahead, perhaps.
But I need to admit, I went a bit too far this time, not just one but TWO trips? And moreover I still planned some more! I think I overdid it for real, blinded by the illusion of graduation and getting a job. Now I'm being slapped back to reality, my father's telling me that those are illusions if I don't focus on tomorrow's exam.
Well, sometimes in life even planning something one month ahead is too early. Sometimes you just have to focus what's in front of you. When you get your priority right, you'll understand. If I don't pass tomorrow's exam, graduation and job are just a dream.
Even though I'm not that happy with all those lectures, my dad has a point. It was just another reminder for me, a virtual slap, to wake up from these delusions and march forward for the mean time.
Time to hit the books and notes again, get some rest, then revise again tomorrow morning.
I know everything will be fine, I know I'll pass this, I know I can do it.
Have faith in self and effort.
I did some laundry as it was sunny this morning.
Had lunch with my friend, went over to a cafe to have coffee and dessert, had some fruits at home.
Well, it was just some kind of every day activity, might be boring if that's all, I won't bother to write anything anyway.
It happened just now, this evening, when my brother told me that he's coming end of this month.
He was booking a ticket, didn't buy it as he hasn't finished his visa application.
He still need to do medical check-up before his visa can be granted.
So we were discussing about when he should arrive in Melbourne.
He told me he's coming on 26th Nov - "Oh no, that's when the French Festival is!"
"How about 25th?"
"Erm, no, flights are full on 24th, so I can't arrive on 25th, but I can come on 24th...."
"(Another "Oh no!") Erm, can't do....."
And conversation went around talking about him can arrive on either 25th or 26th and me planning on taking him along to Gold Coast on 28th. It was okay until my father joined the conversation. "I had a baaaaddd feeling about this...." And here goes, sometimes even my hunches can be right.
"So you're going to Cairns, and the week after that you're going to Gold Coast???" my dad asked in the middle of our 'soon-to-be argument' conversation, things have been heating up for quite awhile now.
"(S**t, s**t, S**T! I wasn't really planning on telling him about it, at least for now....)"
And he started lecturing me, about my past mistakes and stuffs.
I couldn't think that straight anymore, can only stare on his hordes of sentences he threw at me at once. I couldn't even concentrate on my exercises I was doing anymore. Then I realised some kind of heat on my ears, I can tell that they are bright red, it feels like my father's words were said right next to my ears directly.
Well, can't do anything anymore, I was too excited on going for trips and whoever mentioned going to someplace interesting, I just can't help but fit things to my schedule, my bad habit for sure. This is when you are wrong when you plan ahead, perhaps.
But I need to admit, I went a bit too far this time, not just one but TWO trips? And moreover I still planned some more! I think I overdid it for real, blinded by the illusion of graduation and getting a job. Now I'm being slapped back to reality, my father's telling me that those are illusions if I don't focus on tomorrow's exam.
Well, sometimes in life even planning something one month ahead is too early. Sometimes you just have to focus what's in front of you. When you get your priority right, you'll understand. If I don't pass tomorrow's exam, graduation and job are just a dream.
Even though I'm not that happy with all those lectures, my dad has a point. It was just another reminder for me, a virtual slap, to wake up from these delusions and march forward for the mean time.
Time to hit the books and notes again, get some rest, then revise again tomorrow morning.
I know everything will be fine, I know I'll pass this, I know I can do it.
Have faith in self and effort.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Fill My Cup
Tuesday, 1st November 2011 was Melbourne Cup Day, it was a state public holiday, i.e. most workers in Victoria had their holiday yesterday. By the saying most, I mean some are unfortunate to work when everyone's working, these includes restaurants, supermarkets, and office.
Some might think why some offices still open even though it's a public holiday. The answer to that is because it is not a national holiday, so companies with national or international scale have to force themselves to force their employees to work!
But that doesn't come without compensation, full-time workers can choose between extra annual leave or double pay, whereas casual workers are awarded with triple pay, now that's a lot of money!
As for me, I have no classes as I'll be having exam and I have no work. As a matter of fact, I refused to, as my exam is coming up this friday, I'd better get myself to rest or study. I spent my morning for a yum cha in Gold Leaf restaurant, Springvale. My first time there, as I rarely go for yum cha due to them being pricey. Was pretty surprised with how big the restaurant was, the food was quite oily, but overall it was good. Then I had a Vietnamese Iced Coffee before going back home and spent the rest of the day relaxing. Nothing interesting that day, despite most people getting worked up on the Melbourne Cup and exams, for some of Monash students.
Speaking about CUP, I recalled my conversation with my friends last week about filling someone's cup. And it brought me back to when I was still in home stay, about 3 years ago. Funny simple topic, CUP.
"How much are you going to fill someone's cup?"
"Full? How do you define your full? Overfilling it?"
"Fill my cup!"
"Is that the right amount?"
The story starts here...
My friend overfilled my cup that day, I used to overfill when I pour someone a drink.
By overfilling, we fill it so full the liquid almost touch the mouth of the cup!
Our mindset was the same, when want to pour as much as we can to the cup.
And then I realised, maybe that's the mindset for Asians, or maybe only Indonesians, I don't know.
I still remember clearly that how it happened when I overfill my host mother's cup with a tea.
She told me not to overfill cup, maintain some space so when someone's lifting his/her cup, it won't drip easily. I made sense to me, I used to be the very careful one to drink from overfilled cup.
Moreover, my host mother said that if you overfill someone's cup, that means you have something against that person! I was really surprised when hearing that. Talk about manner, maybe that's how European do! Yes they really love drinking tea, they were really a kind of noble and picky people, in my eyes, so I can imagine how you will overfill one's cup if you are mad, angry, or offended.
From that time on, I fill just the right amount of drink, not too much, but not to be seen as less either, just right. And I tried to tell my friends who did the same mistake as mine.
And somehow, I can't get my mind off this music when I heard the word "CUP".
Some might think why some offices still open even though it's a public holiday. The answer to that is because it is not a national holiday, so companies with national or international scale have to force themselves to force their employees to work!
But that doesn't come without compensation, full-time workers can choose between extra annual leave or double pay, whereas casual workers are awarded with triple pay, now that's a lot of money!
As for me, I have no classes as I'll be having exam and I have no work. As a matter of fact, I refused to, as my exam is coming up this friday, I'd better get myself to rest or study. I spent my morning for a yum cha in Gold Leaf restaurant, Springvale. My first time there, as I rarely go for yum cha due to them being pricey. Was pretty surprised with how big the restaurant was, the food was quite oily, but overall it was good. Then I had a Vietnamese Iced Coffee before going back home and spent the rest of the day relaxing. Nothing interesting that day, despite most people getting worked up on the Melbourne Cup and exams, for some of Monash students.
Speaking about CUP, I recalled my conversation with my friends last week about filling someone's cup. And it brought me back to when I was still in home stay, about 3 years ago. Funny simple topic, CUP.
"How much are you going to fill someone's cup?"
"Full? How do you define your full? Overfilling it?"
"Fill my cup!"
(For illustration only. Picture from http://www.aspetto.com/Houseware_Hearts_a_Plenty_cups.jpg)
"Is that the right amount?"
The story starts here...
My friend overfilled my cup that day, I used to overfill when I pour someone a drink.
By overfilling, we fill it so full the liquid almost touch the mouth of the cup!
Our mindset was the same, when want to pour as much as we can to the cup.
And then I realised, maybe that's the mindset for Asians, or maybe only Indonesians, I don't know.
I still remember clearly that how it happened when I overfill my host mother's cup with a tea.
She told me not to overfill cup, maintain some space so when someone's lifting his/her cup, it won't drip easily. I made sense to me, I used to be the very careful one to drink from overfilled cup.
Moreover, my host mother said that if you overfill someone's cup, that means you have something against that person! I was really surprised when hearing that. Talk about manner, maybe that's how European do! Yes they really love drinking tea, they were really a kind of noble and picky people, in my eyes, so I can imagine how you will overfill one's cup if you are mad, angry, or offended.
From that time on, I fill just the right amount of drink, not too much, but not to be seen as less either, just right. And I tried to tell my friends who did the same mistake as mine.
And somehow, I can't get my mind off this music when I heard the word "CUP".
Sunday, October 30, 2011
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!
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!
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
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.
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.
Monday, October 17, 2011
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.
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.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Monday, October 3, 2011
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. :)
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
To be a Better Blog
Whenever I wrote a blog, I wanted it to be good, interesting, grammatically correct.
However, I think I avoided programming a little bit too much here, knowing that even simple bold and italic format will start with that sharp bracket.
Maybe I was too lazy that time, I really want to learn how to create an interesting layout for my blog. I even wanted to create another blog now.
I always post blog without seeing how it will turn out, just type with several "enter" button hit. And this new blog surface proofed me that if I want to create a nice blog, that's not the way it should be.
I've been typing in HTML format since I swapped into the new interface, unconsciously. And what's bad is that I never checked how it looked from reader's point of view. And I just checked it this morning and went OMG.
I have many things to learn about web, I want to know more than just browsing. I want to write a nice blog, well, this blog is all about my thoughts where I just want to write. I want to write another blog where I want more people to read it, and I'm still in the stage of thinking what kind of blog will be interesting for me to write and for others to read.
I'll be learning bit by bit to make my blog much more interesting, in term of format!
However, I think I avoided programming a little bit too much here, knowing that even simple bold and italic format will start with that sharp bracket.
Maybe I was too lazy that time, I really want to learn how to create an interesting layout for my blog. I even wanted to create another blog now.
I always post blog without seeing how it will turn out, just type with several "enter" button hit. And this new blog surface proofed me that if I want to create a nice blog, that's not the way it should be.
I've been typing in HTML format since I swapped into the new interface, unconsciously. And what's bad is that I never checked how it looked from reader's point of view. And I just checked it this morning and went OMG.
I have many things to learn about web, I want to know more than just browsing. I want to write a nice blog, well, this blog is all about my thoughts where I just want to write. I want to write another blog where I want more people to read it, and I'm still in the stage of thinking what kind of blog will be interesting for me to write and for others to read.
I'll be learning bit by bit to make my blog much more interesting, in term of format!
Monday, September 12, 2011
Back to That Pedestal
You know, I've been comparing every segments of my life to each other.
There's primary school, junior high school, senior high school, college, uni....
And they are all broken to small parts which I compared with my life now.
There are times on a Sunday when I thought, "I didn't have the luxury to enjoy Sundays last semester."
Sometimes I thought, "Did I cook this much last year?"
"I tried harder last semester."
"I was such a lazy boy two years ago."
"How could I perform that well in College?"
"I was such a brat before coming to Melbourne."
There are plus and minus in every time of my life. And what I need to do now, knowing I am already 21 and closing to 22, is to gather all those information, experiences, and spirit to be a better person.
"I need to be hardworking like last semester."
"I want the confidence from last year."
"I am to be a critical thinker when I was in College."
"I have to be patient like the me in high school."
I realise that life's all about balance. I've been trying to find out that balance, but I know 21 years not a long time to gain it, but it's not a short time either, it will all be about my effort to do so.
There are so many "to-do's" and "not-to-do's" in my list. They are piling up, sometimes I lose track to some of them. Everyone wants to be perfect, but facing reality, all we can do is only "close to perfection", and that's what I'm aiming for right now.
I compared my life now with in the past. "I want to be as hardworking like last semester, but do I want the life where I could hardly meet my friends?" "I think I need to be like last year when I was confidence and surrounded by many friends, but was lazy and kept on over spending my parent's money?"
Questions, Reflections......... And find your solution.
Time's running, but time's the one to teach you, to give you experience.
I will question myself, "which one's good for me?"
I will reflect to myself, "which was bad that time?"
These are not regret, even though I had a slight regret, but it's all in the past, I am partly glad. If not because failing, I wouldn't have learnt, I wouldn't have meet those people, I wouldn't be introduced to French. In business term, we call it "Opportunity Costs".
I will take every small rocks of goods from the past and try my best to bring it to present. I will build a pedestal from these rocks for my future. Where I can stand with confidence, just like last year, but with a perfectly built pedestal this time to hold my life till my end of time.
There are times on a Sunday when I thought, "I didn't have the luxury to enjoy Sundays last semester."
Sometimes I thought, "Did I cook this much last year?"
"I tried harder last semester."
"I was such a lazy boy two years ago."
"How could I perform that well in College?"
"I was such a brat before coming to Melbourne."
There are plus and minus in every time of my life. And what I need to do now, knowing I am already 21 and closing to 22, is to gather all those information, experiences, and spirit to be a better person.
"I need to be hardworking like last semester."
"I want the confidence from last year."
"I am to be a critical thinker when I was in College."
"I have to be patient like the me in high school."
I realise that life's all about balance. I've been trying to find out that balance, but I know 21 years not a long time to gain it, but it's not a short time either, it will all be about my effort to do so.
There are so many "to-do's" and "not-to-do's" in my list. They are piling up, sometimes I lose track to some of them. Everyone wants to be perfect, but facing reality, all we can do is only "close to perfection", and that's what I'm aiming for right now.
I compared my life now with in the past. "I want to be as hardworking like last semester, but do I want the life where I could hardly meet my friends?" "I think I need to be like last year when I was confidence and surrounded by many friends, but was lazy and kept on over spending my parent's money?"
Questions, Reflections......... And find your solution.
Time's running, but time's the one to teach you, to give you experience.
I will question myself, "which one's good for me?"
I will reflect to myself, "which was bad that time?"
These are not regret, even though I had a slight regret, but it's all in the past, I am partly glad. If not because failing, I wouldn't have learnt, I wouldn't have meet those people, I wouldn't be introduced to French. In business term, we call it "Opportunity Costs".
I will take every small rocks of goods from the past and try my best to bring it to present. I will build a pedestal from these rocks for my future. Where I can stand with confidence, just like last year, but with a perfectly built pedestal this time to hold my life till my end of time.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
All in One Day
It's Tuesday.
I woke up quite late again, about 8pm and did my morning 'rolling and cuddling' in bed before getting up. I has been lazy these few days, or maybe it has been few weeks? I don't know.
We just did white water rafting on Sunday and it was absolutely fun, I really want to go again, perhaps on stronger current? Anyway, I'm going for skydiving this Saturday and kayaking this Sunday. Skydiving is thrilling and kayaking will be fun for sure. There will also be Festival Indonesia this weekend, which my housemate wants to go to if we finish kayaking early.
I have put my leave application for this Saturday since almost two months ago and it hasn't been approved. It's partly my fault and partly my manager's fault for that. It's my fault for not checking whether my leave has been approved or not. Last time I put my application, I just mention my leave to my manager and he just said yes and asked me to fill up a form, in which I left near the printing machine. It's partly my manager's fault because he didn't say anything about it to me, but he said no to my second in charge. I think he thought that the second in charge will tell me about it, which he didn't, of course. So it's just messing up with out own 'assumptions'.
When I found out that my leave was rejected, I was quite surprised and freaked out as it was 2 weeks before the skydive. I already planned to take sick leave the whole weekend, which occupied a lot of my time. Suddenly my manager called me this afternoon and said that he's trying his best to give me a day off on Saturday. Well, I have been helping him quite a lot, like coming for extra shifts when someone's taking sick leave and staying back for few hours many times. Maybe that's why I was quite pissed when he did not approve my leave. He'll let me know how it goes by tonight, I hope he'll get someone to replace me this Saturday so I don't have to lie about being sick.
That's one weight off me.
When we did rafting, I was the one who made the booking and arranging the car rental. It was quote hard since not everybody is using Facebook regularly and I didn't foresee that. That resulted in few miscommunications and some information did not reach some people. And I was thinking about the skydive and tests as well, so it was a no wonder if I was full of emotion last week. But I still felt really bad being all nasty like that, even I think I was so harsh when making jokes.
Anyway, I learnt a lot of things from that. I called up the car rental company to make sure no extra deductions were made to me. Luckily I paid for insurance and some new scratches that I was not aware of were covered by the insurance. Then I asked my friends who paid for petrol. I just did all calculations for all payments that should go to me, it was good that two of my friends were so quick in responding and they quickly letting me know about deductions from other costs and transferred me the rest of money they owed me. Yeah, I made it easy, all money owed goes to me, I worked out deductions and stuff so people just need to transfer to one person.
That's rafting thingy done, moving to skydive.
I reconfirmed about the booking, what time we need to arrive, and check if we're getting any photos taken by them or not. Then I quickly inform my friends. I haven't arrange how we will meet up yet, I need to do the research tonight I guess. I also need to forward the booking details.
That's not bad at all, eh?
Moving to good news, suddenly the head office called me up and said that I can transfer store to Chadstone, which is close by. I need to walk to station (8 minutes), take the train (10-15 minutes), then take bus (10 minutes). Let's just say that it will take about 30 minutes to get there compared to more than an hour to get to the store I'm working at the moment. I will go to see the assistant store manager tomorrow to discuss my shift, no need for complicated interview as I am fully qualified in bakery department. They want me to work on Sundays, I really hope they can give me a Saturday off since my friends are working and I can only go out with them on weekends most of the time.
There are still many things happened, maybe I'll just make another post as this one's already pretty long? Nah, I'll continue!
I accompanied my friend to see a lecturer who deals with French study abroad. She wants to take summer in French so she can graduate early next year. Fortunately she can! And guess what, even though I will have finished my degree, I can go as well! That's a big 'WOW' from just a question coming out of curiosity. I think I'll ask my parents tonight on what they think of it. Perhaps I can spend another Birthday and New Year in France again?
Would be such a delight! Many good things happened and many tasks completed, All in One Day.
I woke up quite late again, about 8pm and did my morning 'rolling and cuddling' in bed before getting up. I has been lazy these few days, or maybe it has been few weeks? I don't know.
We just did white water rafting on Sunday and it was absolutely fun, I really want to go again, perhaps on stronger current? Anyway, I'm going for skydiving this Saturday and kayaking this Sunday. Skydiving is thrilling and kayaking will be fun for sure. There will also be Festival Indonesia this weekend, which my housemate wants to go to if we finish kayaking early.
I have put my leave application for this Saturday since almost two months ago and it hasn't been approved. It's partly my fault and partly my manager's fault for that. It's my fault for not checking whether my leave has been approved or not. Last time I put my application, I just mention my leave to my manager and he just said yes and asked me to fill up a form, in which I left near the printing machine. It's partly my manager's fault because he didn't say anything about it to me, but he said no to my second in charge. I think he thought that the second in charge will tell me about it, which he didn't, of course. So it's just messing up with out own 'assumptions'.
When I found out that my leave was rejected, I was quite surprised and freaked out as it was 2 weeks before the skydive. I already planned to take sick leave the whole weekend, which occupied a lot of my time. Suddenly my manager called me this afternoon and said that he's trying his best to give me a day off on Saturday. Well, I have been helping him quite a lot, like coming for extra shifts when someone's taking sick leave and staying back for few hours many times. Maybe that's why I was quite pissed when he did not approve my leave. He'll let me know how it goes by tonight, I hope he'll get someone to replace me this Saturday so I don't have to lie about being sick.
That's one weight off me.
When we did rafting, I was the one who made the booking and arranging the car rental. It was quote hard since not everybody is using Facebook regularly and I didn't foresee that. That resulted in few miscommunications and some information did not reach some people. And I was thinking about the skydive and tests as well, so it was a no wonder if I was full of emotion last week. But I still felt really bad being all nasty like that, even I think I was so harsh when making jokes.
Anyway, I learnt a lot of things from that. I called up the car rental company to make sure no extra deductions were made to me. Luckily I paid for insurance and some new scratches that I was not aware of were covered by the insurance. Then I asked my friends who paid for petrol. I just did all calculations for all payments that should go to me, it was good that two of my friends were so quick in responding and they quickly letting me know about deductions from other costs and transferred me the rest of money they owed me. Yeah, I made it easy, all money owed goes to me, I worked out deductions and stuff so people just need to transfer to one person.
That's rafting thingy done, moving to skydive.
I reconfirmed about the booking, what time we need to arrive, and check if we're getting any photos taken by them or not. Then I quickly inform my friends. I haven't arrange how we will meet up yet, I need to do the research tonight I guess. I also need to forward the booking details.
That's not bad at all, eh?
Moving to good news, suddenly the head office called me up and said that I can transfer store to Chadstone, which is close by. I need to walk to station (8 minutes), take the train (10-15 minutes), then take bus (10 minutes). Let's just say that it will take about 30 minutes to get there compared to more than an hour to get to the store I'm working at the moment. I will go to see the assistant store manager tomorrow to discuss my shift, no need for complicated interview as I am fully qualified in bakery department. They want me to work on Sundays, I really hope they can give me a Saturday off since my friends are working and I can only go out with them on weekends most of the time.
There are still many things happened, maybe I'll just make another post as this one's already pretty long? Nah, I'll continue!
I accompanied my friend to see a lecturer who deals with French study abroad. She wants to take summer in French so she can graduate early next year. Fortunately she can! And guess what, even though I will have finished my degree, I can go as well! That's a big 'WOW' from just a question coming out of curiosity. I think I'll ask my parents tonight on what they think of it. Perhaps I can spend another Birthday and New Year in France again?
Would be such a delight! Many good things happened and many tasks completed, All in One Day.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Ready, Set, Spring!
1st Sept 2011.
Today's the mark of beginning of Spring 2011!
While I'm browsing twitter and Facebook quite late in the morning, I realised that this September many people have many things going on. Good on us! Looks like spring really bring positive energy after all!
Like other festive feeling of welcoming something new, I start this spring by cleaning up my room (again). But it's a little bit different, since I'm welcoming one tiny piece of furniture to my room. ^^
It's a bed-side table! Yep, I just got a nice one for $15 not including delivery. It's a wooden wide one, not a bad price in my opinion. I've been using a storage box from IKEA as bed-side table for slightly more than half a year. Luckily it's a good looking storage box, so it's not that bad.
Now my room is becoming more spacious, cleaner, and I'm going to make it tidier. I hope with the existence of this bedside table, it won't be as messy as before when I do my reading before sleep.
I think I'll do a little bit washing as well, and a bit of cooking, and..... ironing! Tomorrow's I'll be working for 8 hours 2 days straight, gonna be tiring.
And this weekend is White Water Rafting!
Here comes my adventurous spring!
Today's the mark of beginning of Spring 2011!
While I'm browsing twitter and Facebook quite late in the morning, I realised that this September many people have many things going on. Good on us! Looks like spring really bring positive energy after all!
Like other festive feeling of welcoming something new, I start this spring by cleaning up my room (again). But it's a little bit different, since I'm welcoming one tiny piece of furniture to my room. ^^
It's a bed-side table! Yep, I just got a nice one for $15 not including delivery. It's a wooden wide one, not a bad price in my opinion. I've been using a storage box from IKEA as bed-side table for slightly more than half a year. Luckily it's a good looking storage box, so it's not that bad.
Now my room is becoming more spacious, cleaner, and I'm going to make it tidier. I hope with the existence of this bedside table, it won't be as messy as before when I do my reading before sleep.
I think I'll do a little bit washing as well, and a bit of cooking, and..... ironing! Tomorrow's I'll be working for 8 hours 2 days straight, gonna be tiring.
And this weekend is White Water Rafting!
Here comes my adventurous spring!
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Embracing Spring
After embracing winter from few months ago, we're embracing spring now, well in two days to be exact.
I just realised that my last post was on the independence day of indonesia, and now my post is on idul fitri, talk about Indonesian big days!
Anyway, last week was as warm as middle of spring but this week it's becoming cooler, but it still feels like spring!
Starting last Sunday, I've started my Spring adventures.
Yup, there are so many things I'm doing this spring, rock climbing, white water rafting, sky diving, kayaking....
Gonna be exciting for sure!
And I haven't mention other stuffs as well!
I wish that this spring will be a great season for me!
I just realised that my last post was on the independence day of indonesia, and now my post is on idul fitri, talk about Indonesian big days!
Anyway, last week was as warm as middle of spring but this week it's becoming cooler, but it still feels like spring!
Starting last Sunday, I've started my Spring adventures.
Yup, there are so many things I'm doing this spring, rock climbing, white water rafting, sky diving, kayaking....
Gonna be exciting for sure!
And I haven't mention other stuffs as well!
I wish that this spring will be a great season for me!
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Job-hunting, Aug 2011
This week was full on job hunting, resume checking, and creating cover letters.
I know it sounds too soon for me, who'll complete in November, to look for a job in August.
But we need to keep in mind that I'm actually already LATE at job-hunting, I should have gone for interviews for graduate position if I've applied for graduate positions which most of them closed last month.
I just realised that we've got different culture here compared to in Indonesia.
Most of people in Indonesia will wait for graduation before trying to look for job.
I can be done here, I'm not saying it's wrong, but apparently these Aussies are much smarter and ahead than us.
Most students here, especially for those high-achievers, has already secured a job in a 2-year contract in graduate program in leading companies.
This is the time for me to regret why I didn't study harder and score high marks across my subjects in uni.
But let me see the bright side, I got the chance to learn French, which will be impossible if I graduate sooner as I would choose to learn Germany. I met many new friends, good ones. And I'm still in Australia, enjoying every second here.
Things has not been very friendly to me though, but somehow this semester I managed to see things positively and acted positively too.
Back to topic.
Yes, I was rushing a job application that I really want, but I only managed to get my documents to be checked once.
I was late on Monday and it was already full on Wednesday (today).
I think my documents are good, but I'm sure there are rooms for improvements.
I just hope that those bunch of people who wanted to get their documents checked do not apply for the same job that I do, lol.
But overall, I think I'm qualified for the job, just wishing that no one has better resume than me.
Nevertheless, it will be a good practice for me to make resume and cover letter.
If this fails, I'll still stay positive and try looking again, my deadline's November so I need to rush things a bit.
I know it sounds too soon for me, who'll complete in November, to look for a job in August.
But we need to keep in mind that I'm actually already LATE at job-hunting, I should have gone for interviews for graduate position if I've applied for graduate positions which most of them closed last month.
I just realised that we've got different culture here compared to in Indonesia.
Most of people in Indonesia will wait for graduation before trying to look for job.
I can be done here, I'm not saying it's wrong, but apparently these Aussies are much smarter and ahead than us.
Most students here, especially for those high-achievers, has already secured a job in a 2-year contract in graduate program in leading companies.
This is the time for me to regret why I didn't study harder and score high marks across my subjects in uni.
But let me see the bright side, I got the chance to learn French, which will be impossible if I graduate sooner as I would choose to learn Germany. I met many new friends, good ones. And I'm still in Australia, enjoying every second here.
Things has not been very friendly to me though, but somehow this semester I managed to see things positively and acted positively too.
Back to topic.
Yes, I was rushing a job application that I really want, but I only managed to get my documents to be checked once.
I was late on Monday and it was already full on Wednesday (today).
I think my documents are good, but I'm sure there are rooms for improvements.
I just hope that those bunch of people who wanted to get their documents checked do not apply for the same job that I do, lol.
But overall, I think I'm qualified for the job, just wishing that no one has better resume than me.
Nevertheless, it will be a good practice for me to make resume and cover letter.
If this fails, I'll still stay positive and try looking again, my deadline's November so I need to rush things a bit.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Monash Association of Debaters (MAD)
How long has it been since my last post?
I know I'm lazy, I'm trying to post regularly but procrastination is still my biggest issue, lol.
This is week 3, not like I have anymore class this week since my classes are on Mondays to Wednesdays.
Not many assignments coming up yet. Well, not like I have many assignments anyway since I'm doing only 1 subject, duh.
So I kept on wondering these few weeks, what should I do to fill up my free time?
At first I thought of working, but not really possible since they only need me on weekends at the moment.
I don't really like weekends shift as it's the time I hang around with my friends who are working.
So I thought to myself, let's enjoy uni life, clubs!
I joined French Society since last semester, but they haven't done anything these few weeks.
I emailed Japanese club, but they didn't reply me yet.
I emailed MAD (see title) and they replied in few hours! The reply was very encouraging and I know that MAD is an active club and has been winning many competitions.
That's how I joined them on Monday, their weekly meeting was at 5pm.
I was quite surprised to see one small lecture hall used for this club at first.
There are so many students involved in this club, soon I found out that most of them are Law students which explained why they got the whole law building for them.
I was clueless when I entered the hall, there are some people in front and one lady was shouting about "sign-up", so off I go to see her and expressed my interest. Sure thing she immediately type in her laptop my full name.
"Hmm, funny." I thought, "Shouldn't they give me a form, ask my student ID, and check if I'm a MSA member?"
*MSA member: Monash Student Association, you need to pay about $60 per year and you'll get several benefit on stores and clubs in Monash Clayton Campus.
After she jotted down my name, I realised that she is taking the names for who want to join the DEBATE that night!
"S**T!!!!" came through my mind without spoken, "What have I done?!?! Should I take my name off ASAP????"
But then I taught myself, "Why did I join this club for? I want confidence and public-speaking skill."
That's why even though I'm clueless about debate I still left my name written in the role.
At first I sat by myself until they called my team mate, who is having his second debate but first BP style debate.
Well, at least he can teach me how this debate will go.
But the preparation time was only 15 minutes, and it wasn't even enough for us to brain storm, nonetheless to teach me how it goes.
And there I went for my first debate ever, me being second opposition with the topic: "This house will ban offensive music." (Wordings changed, of course they use much more elegant sentences)
Everyone was really good, there are three people before me and I was the last speaker.
When I went to the front for my speech, my mind went blank, I was nervous and panicking!
The room ended up being in perfect silence thanks to me.
After I started my first sentence, eveything went quite well, I was pretty surprised at myself as well.
We didn't win the debate though, I took to many POI (Point Of Information) which I didn't know that we should only take 4 max and me taking all of those, haha....
After first debate, we had pizza for dinner, and of course the club's paying for it, which is really nice! I'll be having pizza every Monday!
Second debate didn't go really well for my team, but I was more fluent than the first one.
We finished at 10pm and luckily my team mate is kind enough to drive me back home, rather than me taking bus and walk 15 minutes since my usual last bus is at 9pm.
I was so happy and proud of myself when every one, especially seniors said that it didn't look like it was my first time doing it even if it's totally true!
This is MAD's website, we can browse many things related to debating:
http://www.monashdebaters.com/
I know I'm lazy, I'm trying to post regularly but procrastination is still my biggest issue, lol.
This is week 3, not like I have anymore class this week since my classes are on Mondays to Wednesdays.
Not many assignments coming up yet. Well, not like I have many assignments anyway since I'm doing only 1 subject, duh.
So I kept on wondering these few weeks, what should I do to fill up my free time?
At first I thought of working, but not really possible since they only need me on weekends at the moment.
I don't really like weekends shift as it's the time I hang around with my friends who are working.
So I thought to myself, let's enjoy uni life, clubs!
I joined French Society since last semester, but they haven't done anything these few weeks.
I emailed Japanese club, but they didn't reply me yet.
I emailed MAD (see title) and they replied in few hours! The reply was very encouraging and I know that MAD is an active club and has been winning many competitions.
That's how I joined them on Monday, their weekly meeting was at 5pm.
I was quite surprised to see one small lecture hall used for this club at first.
There are so many students involved in this club, soon I found out that most of them are Law students which explained why they got the whole law building for them.
I was clueless when I entered the hall, there are some people in front and one lady was shouting about "sign-up", so off I go to see her and expressed my interest. Sure thing she immediately type in her laptop my full name.
"Hmm, funny." I thought, "Shouldn't they give me a form, ask my student ID, and check if I'm a MSA member?"
*MSA member: Monash Student Association, you need to pay about $60 per year and you'll get several benefit on stores and clubs in Monash Clayton Campus.
After she jotted down my name, I realised that she is taking the names for who want to join the DEBATE that night!
"S**T!!!!" came through my mind without spoken, "What have I done?!?! Should I take my name off ASAP????"
But then I taught myself, "Why did I join this club for? I want confidence and public-speaking skill."
That's why even though I'm clueless about debate I still left my name written in the role.
At first I sat by myself until they called my team mate, who is having his second debate but first BP style debate.
Well, at least he can teach me how this debate will go.
But the preparation time was only 15 minutes, and it wasn't even enough for us to brain storm, nonetheless to teach me how it goes.
And there I went for my first debate ever, me being second opposition with the topic: "This house will ban offensive music." (Wordings changed, of course they use much more elegant sentences)
Everyone was really good, there are three people before me and I was the last speaker.
When I went to the front for my speech, my mind went blank, I was nervous and panicking!
The room ended up being in perfect silence thanks to me.
After I started my first sentence, eveything went quite well, I was pretty surprised at myself as well.
We didn't win the debate though, I took to many POI (Point Of Information) which I didn't know that we should only take 4 max and me taking all of those, haha....
After first debate, we had pizza for dinner, and of course the club's paying for it, which is really nice! I'll be having pizza every Monday!
Second debate didn't go really well for my team, but I was more fluent than the first one.
We finished at 10pm and luckily my team mate is kind enough to drive me back home, rather than me taking bus and walk 15 minutes since my usual last bus is at 9pm.
I was so happy and proud of myself when every one, especially seniors said that it didn't look like it was my first time doing it even if it's totally true!
This is MAD's website, we can browse many things related to debating:
http://www.monashdebaters.com/
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
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.
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.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
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.
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.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Melbourne Winter 2011
It's a H-O-L-I-D-A-Y!
Shout out a big BIG Y-E-S!
I'm pretty happy that my exams went fine, I wasn't really struggling with the questions, fingers crossed for the results.
I'll be having more than one month holiday this winter, finished exam on 22nd of June and starting uni July 25th.
This will be the first time for me for not going back to indonesia in a semester break.
Yes, I was extremely tempted to go back I had already checked airfare several times but I decided to focus studying for my exams first as I was doubtful myself.
In the end, I think this will really be the first time.
I don't mind at all, my sister will only go home for a week so it wouldn't be that fun if the family's not complete, lol. (excuses)
Instead, I've planned so many things to do over this holiday!
I'll be having a road trip with my friends from French class, still not sure of the destination yet, but I know it will be on Monday-Thursday next week or the week after.
While I'm blogging now, I am checking this website for destinations:
http://www.sydneymelbournetouring.com.au/
What's more interesting and sounds fun is that we're planning to rent a van!
The van's not too big but it will fit 4 people, just the right number we need. :)
Here's the link and I think your jaw will drop when you see the van, haha
But hey, we need to do this kind of stuff one in a while, right?
http://www.jucy.com.au/vehicles/jucy-choppa-4-berth.aspx
I will also watch a cultural even on July 15th, named "Dans Nederland" (Hoped I got my spellings right).
As you can see, there will be dances from Netherland, not sure about the details as my friend's the one who organised everything, including buying the ticket.
I'm also planning to do a backpacking to.... Maybe Sydney? Just to take a walk for few days I guess.
I'm not sure about this plan yet, but it will be really fun isn't it?
That's all plans for going out the house for a trip and shows.
I also have tonnes of recipes to try, from starters to dessert, I can't wait to start cooking.
I haven't browsed those recipes yet, I'm still busy doing laundry and tidying my room, thanks to exam it's abandoned for about a month.
I won't get bored at home for sure, I've got my ps3 to accompany me the whole day 24/7!
I guess I will not say "bored" at all this whole month, eh?
I'm so excited with this holiday, hope everything's gone well! :)
Shout out a big BIG Y-E-S!
I'm pretty happy that my exams went fine, I wasn't really struggling with the questions, fingers crossed for the results.
I'll be having more than one month holiday this winter, finished exam on 22nd of June and starting uni July 25th.
This will be the first time for me for not going back to indonesia in a semester break.
Yes, I was extremely tempted to go back I had already checked airfare several times but I decided to focus studying for my exams first as I was doubtful myself.
In the end, I think this will really be the first time.
I don't mind at all, my sister will only go home for a week so it wouldn't be that fun if the family's not complete, lol. (excuses)
Instead, I've planned so many things to do over this holiday!
I'll be having a road trip with my friends from French class, still not sure of the destination yet, but I know it will be on Monday-Thursday next week or the week after.
While I'm blogging now, I am checking this website for destinations:
http://www.sydneymelbournetouring.com.au/
What's more interesting and sounds fun is that we're planning to rent a van!
The van's not too big but it will fit 4 people, just the right number we need. :)
Here's the link and I think your jaw will drop when you see the van, haha
But hey, we need to do this kind of stuff one in a while, right?
http://www.jucy.com.au/vehicles/jucy-choppa-4-berth.aspx
I will also watch a cultural even on July 15th, named "Dans Nederland" (Hoped I got my spellings right).
As you can see, there will be dances from Netherland, not sure about the details as my friend's the one who organised everything, including buying the ticket.
I'm also planning to do a backpacking to.... Maybe Sydney? Just to take a walk for few days I guess.
I'm not sure about this plan yet, but it will be really fun isn't it?
That's all plans for going out the house for a trip and shows.
I also have tonnes of recipes to try, from starters to dessert, I can't wait to start cooking.
I haven't browsed those recipes yet, I'm still busy doing laundry and tidying my room, thanks to exam it's abandoned for about a month.
I won't get bored at home for sure, I've got my ps3 to accompany me the whole day 24/7!
I guess I will not say "bored" at all this whole month, eh?
I'm so excited with this holiday, hope everything's gone well! :)
Monday, June 20, 2011
In 2 Days
In 2 days....
I'll finish this semester's exam.
Hopefully everything's going well this year.
I've done my best, I've tried my best.
Tomorrow it will start.
Fingers crossed.
I'm sure tomorrow will be fine.
I'll just hope the day after tomorrow will be fine as well.
After all this I just want to enjoy my life for awhile.
I'm physically and mentally tired from this.
Hopefully, no, It has to go well!
Final revision, sleep, tomorrow it will begin, the closing of this semester's curtain.
Let it be good.
I'll finish this semester's exam.
Hopefully everything's going well this year.
I've done my best, I've tried my best.
Tomorrow it will start.
Fingers crossed.
I'm sure tomorrow will be fine.
I'll just hope the day after tomorrow will be fine as well.
After all this I just want to enjoy my life for awhile.
I'm physically and mentally tired from this.
Hopefully, no, It has to go well!
Final revision, sleep, tomorrow it will begin, the closing of this semester's curtain.
Let it be good.
Sunday, June 19, 2011
The Big Week Ahead
Yes, it's a very very big week coming up for me.
I've got two big exams coming up on Tuesday and Friday and now I'm freaking out!
(But I still got time to blog, eh? Yay me....)
Both exams are Finance subjects and will take place in the morning at Caulfield.
These will be my last two finance exams for me, hopefully I'll be able to finish these two brilliantly.
This semester has been a peak (if it's a story) in my bachelor chapter.
If I passed this semester, I'll be leading a concluding semester and graduation!
I forgot when was the last time I studied this hard in a semester.
I do slack off a bit, but I am very determined this semester not to fail myself anymore and to try my best.
I really hope that it will pay-off.
Time to go back to study!
I've got two big exams coming up on Tuesday and Friday and now I'm freaking out!
(But I still got time to blog, eh? Yay me....)
Both exams are Finance subjects and will take place in the morning at Caulfield.
These will be my last two finance exams for me, hopefully I'll be able to finish these two brilliantly.
This semester has been a peak (if it's a story) in my bachelor chapter.
If I passed this semester, I'll be leading a concluding semester and graduation!
I forgot when was the last time I studied this hard in a semester.
I do slack off a bit, but I am very determined this semester not to fail myself anymore and to try my best.
I really hope that it will pay-off.
Time to go back to study!
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Smart Time to be Sick
Yeay, I was sick the whole day yesterday, and still not fully recovered today either!
I knew Thursday night I wasn't feeling well, but I never thought that it will turn this bad.
I woke up Friday morning finding that my whole body's aching all over.
I decided to have a quick shower and a breakfast of fruit toast, coffee with soy milk, and a pear.
Suddenly I felt that my stomach is not right, it's aching and grumbling, but I thought it was because of late breakfast I had.
I walked to my bus stop, I realised that the weather's much colder than I thought but too lazy to change to thicker jacket.
Once I was in the bus, I felt dizzy, I still thought it was fine.
Once I reached campus, I started to feel like I can faint in the bus stop.
Just when I arrived in the library I realised that I must be sick.
I wasn't able to study at all, I even threw up a little bit.
With all my jacket, scarf, and gloves on, I still felt really cold in the library despite everyone taking of their gears as soon as they sat down.
I felt my body and head really hot but my feet and hands are freezing.
Then I had lunch with my friend and I decided I'll have congee for lunch.
I remembered my friend recommending combination congee at China Bar, which is really good.
But since I was sick, all those meat I ate made me wanna puke.
I slept the whole afternoon till dinner time, when I decided to make congee of my own.
My housemate made some mung bean for me, but I couldn't really stand it as it made my throat and stomach acting up.
Then I continued to sleep....
I don't know how many hours I spent yesterday just for sleep.
I kept on waking up many time just to go to toilet as I was drinking a lot of water.
But luckily I could get back to sleep as soon as my body hit the bed.
It's really not a good time to be sick at all.
I have two exams coming next week and I'm not ready for either of them.
I haven't really studied either today as I am still not feeling well.
I just ate congee and soup today......
I hope tomorrow I'll be better and I'll be able to study effectively.
Ok, guess it's time to sleep.
I knew Thursday night I wasn't feeling well, but I never thought that it will turn this bad.
I woke up Friday morning finding that my whole body's aching all over.
I decided to have a quick shower and a breakfast of fruit toast, coffee with soy milk, and a pear.
Suddenly I felt that my stomach is not right, it's aching and grumbling, but I thought it was because of late breakfast I had.
I walked to my bus stop, I realised that the weather's much colder than I thought but too lazy to change to thicker jacket.
Once I was in the bus, I felt dizzy, I still thought it was fine.
Once I reached campus, I started to feel like I can faint in the bus stop.
Just when I arrived in the library I realised that I must be sick.
I wasn't able to study at all, I even threw up a little bit.
With all my jacket, scarf, and gloves on, I still felt really cold in the library despite everyone taking of their gears as soon as they sat down.
I felt my body and head really hot but my feet and hands are freezing.
Then I had lunch with my friend and I decided I'll have congee for lunch.
I remembered my friend recommending combination congee at China Bar, which is really good.
But since I was sick, all those meat I ate made me wanna puke.
I slept the whole afternoon till dinner time, when I decided to make congee of my own.
My housemate made some mung bean for me, but I couldn't really stand it as it made my throat and stomach acting up.
Then I continued to sleep....
I don't know how many hours I spent yesterday just for sleep.
I kept on waking up many time just to go to toilet as I was drinking a lot of water.
But luckily I could get back to sleep as soon as my body hit the bed.
It's really not a good time to be sick at all.
I have two exams coming next week and I'm not ready for either of them.
I haven't really studied either today as I am still not feeling well.
I just ate congee and soup today......
I hope tomorrow I'll be better and I'll be able to study effectively.
Ok, guess it's time to sleep.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Another Library Session
Thursday, 16 June 2011
It was freezing at home this morning even though it was really sunny and warm outside.
Took a shower first then started preparing breakfast.
I had 2 slices of fruit toast with butter, a scone with nutella, and a cup of soy latte one sugar.
Having breakfast while enjoying morning sunshine, my favourite.
I felt peace in the middle of this study frenzy.
It was the first time I studied at home till morning and I could still wake up in the morning, surprise surprise......
And now back to library again, another study day, I wish I can finish studying half of this subject by today otherwise I'm screwed.
2 exams standing next to each other is really not a good combination after all, but it's not like I set the timetable though.
Been studying half-half for these few days, switching from one subject to the other.
I know it's not effective, I actually has planned my study since last week but somehow I couldn't study the whole weekend, me wasting 3 days worth of study, I would have almost finished studying one subject if I use those time efficiently and effectively, bah.
Anyway thing that's done is done, nothing you can do about it, just try to fix it.
Back to study.
It was freezing at home this morning even though it was really sunny and warm outside.
Took a shower first then started preparing breakfast.
I had 2 slices of fruit toast with butter, a scone with nutella, and a cup of soy latte one sugar.
Having breakfast while enjoying morning sunshine, my favourite.
I felt peace in the middle of this study frenzy.
It was the first time I studied at home till morning and I could still wake up in the morning, surprise surprise......
And now back to library again, another study day, I wish I can finish studying half of this subject by today otherwise I'm screwed.
2 exams standing next to each other is really not a good combination after all, but it's not like I set the timetable though.
Been studying half-half for these few days, switching from one subject to the other.
I know it's not effective, I actually has planned my study since last week but somehow I couldn't study the whole weekend, me wasting 3 days worth of study, I would have almost finished studying one subject if I use those time efficiently and effectively, bah.
Anyway thing that's done is done, nothing you can do about it, just try to fix it.
Back to study.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Unexpected Weekend
First plan for this weekend was actually.... (Including Friday, haha)
Friday....
6AM-11AM work
Then brunch, probably at Balaclava or South Melbourne.
After that go to State Library or RMIT Library to study till evening.
In the evening, watch movie in the cinema, then go back and sleep.
Saturday...
5AM-1.30PM work
After work then go back home for some rest and study at home.
Sunday...
Not really have exact plan but studying....
It turned out that one of my friend is going to have appendices surgery!
I was quite surprised since I heard about it in my break on Friday.
I decided to visit him soon after I finished working.
And I was quite surprised as well with medical system here, well, public ones at least.
I though the medical system in Australia is already good, but well, even someone rushed to emergency can be treated days after they arrived in the hospital, surprise surprise.....
He ended up getting the surgery on Saturday morning despite he coming to the hospital Thursday night.
It's good that he can leave the hospital today.
Yep, that's the big unexpected thing happening this week.
There're heaps of unexpected stuff happening, I can say it's not really important, haha...
But I will still post it, lol.
1.
Yes, brunch was cancelled, and eventually moved to today! LOL
Had a nice brunch, at last I had bagels for the first time, not bad.
2.
I stayed at my friends house for 2 nights from the previous plan of just one.
Almost stayed for another night but I remember having things to do on Monday morning, too bad. :(
3.
Despite being in exam period and haven't touch materials for the next two exams, I spent this weekend without studying at all! This depressed and stressed me out of course, I really really need to get started. And darn somehow I'm in holiday mood and it's not good at all, I need to make sure I pushed myself to my extreme limit for these 2 exams for real.....
Usually I'm a person who always follow the plan and I will get really pissed if it doesn't go according to plans.
Well, people change, I become quite flexible now.
And that's why I (kinda) start studying now, in library which will close at 5pm, hope tonight my study mood will re-surface again, I was on fire on my previous exam, bah.
Fingers crossed my study will be smooth and I can go through this semester with a clenched fist and shout "VICTORY!!!!"
Friday....
6AM-11AM work
Then brunch, probably at Balaclava or South Melbourne.
After that go to State Library or RMIT Library to study till evening.
In the evening, watch movie in the cinema, then go back and sleep.
Saturday...
5AM-1.30PM work
After work then go back home for some rest and study at home.
Sunday...
Not really have exact plan but studying....
It turned out that one of my friend is going to have appendices surgery!
I was quite surprised since I heard about it in my break on Friday.
I decided to visit him soon after I finished working.
And I was quite surprised as well with medical system here, well, public ones at least.
I though the medical system in Australia is already good, but well, even someone rushed to emergency can be treated days after they arrived in the hospital, surprise surprise.....
He ended up getting the surgery on Saturday morning despite he coming to the hospital Thursday night.
It's good that he can leave the hospital today.
Yep, that's the big unexpected thing happening this week.
There're heaps of unexpected stuff happening, I can say it's not really important, haha...
But I will still post it, lol.
1.
Yes, brunch was cancelled, and eventually moved to today! LOL
Had a nice brunch, at last I had bagels for the first time, not bad.
2.
I stayed at my friends house for 2 nights from the previous plan of just one.
Almost stayed for another night but I remember having things to do on Monday morning, too bad. :(
3.
Despite being in exam period and haven't touch materials for the next two exams, I spent this weekend without studying at all! This depressed and stressed me out of course, I really really need to get started. And darn somehow I'm in holiday mood and it's not good at all, I need to make sure I pushed myself to my extreme limit for these 2 exams for real.....
Usually I'm a person who always follow the plan and I will get really pissed if it doesn't go according to plans.
Well, people change, I become quite flexible now.
And that's why I (kinda) start studying now, in library which will close at 5pm, hope tonight my study mood will re-surface again, I was on fire on my previous exam, bah.
Fingers crossed my study will be smooth and I can go through this semester with a clenched fist and shout "VICTORY!!!!"
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Study Days
Here I am, my exams are starting in less than a week.
In a week time, I would have finished 2 exams.
I am supposed to freak out at the moment as I just started studying thanks to the mess given by my missing group mate that I was forced to travel to Caulfield from City just to a meeting with a lecturer. And yes I would like to declare that yesterday was not really effective and productive for me.
Today I'm studying in Caulfield, not in the library, but in a study space prepared by Monash by using spare class rooms.
I hope I'll finish all this finance subject tutorials today otherwise I'll be screwed for real.
It's already 1.30pm and I'm still fooling around, I just finished 1 tutorial out of 12 tutorials. 1 tutorial will take roughly half an hour for me to revise, can be more can be less.
I do hope these study days will pay off, in a good way of course......
In a week time, I would have finished 2 exams.
I am supposed to freak out at the moment as I just started studying thanks to the mess given by my missing group mate that I was forced to travel to Caulfield from City just to a meeting with a lecturer. And yes I would like to declare that yesterday was not really effective and productive for me.
Today I'm studying in Caulfield, not in the library, but in a study space prepared by Monash by using spare class rooms.
I hope I'll finish all this finance subject tutorials today otherwise I'll be screwed for real.
It's already 1.30pm and I'm still fooling around, I just finished 1 tutorial out of 12 tutorials. 1 tutorial will take roughly half an hour for me to revise, can be more can be less.
I do hope these study days will pay off, in a good way of course......
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Oral Exam
I did my French oral exam today.
I think I was really really stiff and nervous back then.
My partner seems much more relaxed and composed.
I do hope that both of us got good mark, I know we didn't really put much effort on this but I think we did quite well! :)
Soon after the exam, I went to Caulfield to finish off the last assignment.
I was prepared to go home at about 11pm-ish, but it turned out that we finished quite early, about 10pm.
We'll be meeting up again tomorrow afternoon to give final touch, hopefully it will be finished by tomorrow so I can start my exam preparation.
Fingers crossed!
I think I was really really stiff and nervous back then.
My partner seems much more relaxed and composed.
I do hope that both of us got good mark, I know we didn't really put much effort on this but I think we did quite well! :)
Soon after the exam, I went to Caulfield to finish off the last assignment.
I was prepared to go home at about 11pm-ish, but it turned out that we finished quite early, about 10pm.
We'll be meeting up again tomorrow afternoon to give final touch, hopefully it will be finished by tomorrow so I can start my exam preparation.
Fingers crossed!
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Assignment Frenzy
Here I am again, after vacuuming myself (unintentionally) from blogging.
And again, there are so many things I'd like to write, but as it's gonna be boring if it's too long, let me just write some.
Today's topic is Assignment! Very familiar and 'friendly' word for us students.
I've got not that many assignments actually, only a few major assignments, heaps of small assignments and tests throughout the semester.
The big problem is that these assignments are coming like a flock!
One by one occupying you till you disregard the major assignments!
And as you guessed it, we planned to do this major assignment bit-by-bit week-by-week but it did not work that way as we have our own assignments.
What makes matter worse, now we have a missing group mate, smart eh?
We couldn't contact him since Tuesday last week.
He said he twisted his ankle and couldn't come to uni for group meeting, my friend suggested to have the group meeting place moved to his house as he live nearby uni.
As you all can guess now, communication ceased.
Up to now his phone's dead and other means of communication are not replied (Facebook, email, msn, text message)
At first I didn't really care, since that was what he did before but he finished his part on-time.
Apparently, he didn't contact us back until Friday and we decided to email our lecturer.
We already did major parts of the assignment starting Thursday and we couldn't proceed as we needed his part.
So on Monday, we (my friend to be precise) did his part and we continued our assignment without him.
I hope we can finish that part today, we finished the calculation but my friend freaked out as we got negative figure on share price which is impossible in real life. I told her many times that that means the company is in big trouble.
Well, I clarified my opinion to my tutor and he said that I'm on track, so I don't really think that we need to do anymore adjustment on our calculation.
Hopefully I can finish this major part today and then focus on my oral exam tomorrow.....
After finishing this part, I still have three parts I need to finalise before given to my friend for final editing and I need to prepare French oral exam as well! And then after that I really really want to focus studying for exam, I'm freaked out!!!
Ciao then!
And again, there are so many things I'd like to write, but as it's gonna be boring if it's too long, let me just write some.
Today's topic is Assignment! Very familiar and 'friendly' word for us students.
I've got not that many assignments actually, only a few major assignments, heaps of small assignments and tests throughout the semester.
The big problem is that these assignments are coming like a flock!
One by one occupying you till you disregard the major assignments!
And as you guessed it, we planned to do this major assignment bit-by-bit week-by-week but it did not work that way as we have our own assignments.
What makes matter worse, now we have a missing group mate, smart eh?
We couldn't contact him since Tuesday last week.
He said he twisted his ankle and couldn't come to uni for group meeting, my friend suggested to have the group meeting place moved to his house as he live nearby uni.
As you all can guess now, communication ceased.
Up to now his phone's dead and other means of communication are not replied (Facebook, email, msn, text message)
At first I didn't really care, since that was what he did before but he finished his part on-time.
Apparently, he didn't contact us back until Friday and we decided to email our lecturer.
We already did major parts of the assignment starting Thursday and we couldn't proceed as we needed his part.
So on Monday, we (my friend to be precise) did his part and we continued our assignment without him.
I hope we can finish that part today, we finished the calculation but my friend freaked out as we got negative figure on share price which is impossible in real life. I told her many times that that means the company is in big trouble.
Well, I clarified my opinion to my tutor and he said that I'm on track, so I don't really think that we need to do anymore adjustment on our calculation.
Hopefully I can finish this major part today and then focus on my oral exam tomorrow.....
After finishing this part, I still have three parts I need to finalise before given to my friend for final editing and I need to prepare French oral exam as well! And then after that I really really want to focus studying for exam, I'm freaked out!!!
Ciao then!
Monday, May 16, 2011
Full blast week 11 & 12
Omg I can't believe it's already week 11.
And there's still much to do, I believe I won't be able to start revising for exam before week 12 finished.....
Yesterday I was in uni from 10AM till 8PM, the same thing almost happened today, 11AM-7PM.
This week and next week's gonna be full of assignments and test, thanks to them my schedule is super-packed!
I won't have much relaxing time even on weekends, there will be only study and work now.
Ok, I believe I need to give my best for a month, then I'll be free!
Next semester I'll still be in uni, but I'll be learning only and French only! Big YAY for me! :)
Just think about it, I'll do my best for one month, then next semester will be my last and happiest semester in uni.
I'll be able to study only language, I will have heaps of time to try new recipes and cook, I'll work part-time, etc etc.
Yes, so no more complaining, I've promised myself not only complaining about stuff but try to resolve my problems.
I don't stop myself from complaining, because it shows that I'm still not satisfied with things around me that's why I need to fight for the better!
Ok, time to go back to assignment!
And there's still much to do, I believe I won't be able to start revising for exam before week 12 finished.....
Yesterday I was in uni from 10AM till 8PM, the same thing almost happened today, 11AM-7PM.
This week and next week's gonna be full of assignments and test, thanks to them my schedule is super-packed!
I won't have much relaxing time even on weekends, there will be only study and work now.
Ok, I believe I need to give my best for a month, then I'll be free!
Next semester I'll still be in uni, but I'll be learning only and French only! Big YAY for me! :)
Just think about it, I'll do my best for one month, then next semester will be my last and happiest semester in uni.
I'll be able to study only language, I will have heaps of time to try new recipes and cook, I'll work part-time, etc etc.
Yes, so no more complaining, I've promised myself not only complaining about stuff but try to resolve my problems.
I don't stop myself from complaining, because it shows that I'm still not satisfied with things around me that's why I need to fight for the better!
Ok, time to go back to assignment!
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Chillin' up in an Already Chilly Day
DAY OFF AGAIN!
Oh how I'm so happy enjoying this.
I've got 2 days off now, which is standard here.
One of these days off are Thursdays, the other one is Sundays.
I slept quite late last night, Youtube-ing, I know, sounds so silly.
But I just can't stop clicking those videos, they just kept popping out and I can't resist watching them!
My alarm is set on 8AM, which I postponed to 9AM, when I actually already awake at 7AM but resisted to come out from bed.
I the end I got out from bed about 10AMish since I enjoyed playing with my itouch until I lose track of time.
It's still raining and I realised that it will be lunch soon so I opened my fridge to find that there's nothing for my lunch!
Actually I have something but I refuse to eat instant noodle or fried dumplings, I don't want to eat just eggs or floss.....
The only veggie I have is carrot, and no meat at all.
I looked out the window and see that it's still drizzling outside.
A huge dilemma come to my mind, what to do? Eat these stuff in the fridge or go out in the middle in this rain to buy something.
Nah, I'm not going to drench myself in the rain, it's gonna be an extremely busy weekend starting tomorrow, can't afford to get sick at all.
I decided to make.... risotto!
Yeah, only rice, carrots, onions and garlic as ingredients, lucky me having some stocks and spices ready all the time.
When I'm halfway to my cooking, my friend called and ask to go out for lunch, banzai!
I'll be able to buy something without rain as a hassle!
I think I'll have this risotto for tonight then. ;)
Oh how I'm so happy enjoying this.
I've got 2 days off now, which is standard here.
One of these days off are Thursdays, the other one is Sundays.
I slept quite late last night, Youtube-ing, I know, sounds so silly.
But I just can't stop clicking those videos, they just kept popping out and I can't resist watching them!
My alarm is set on 8AM, which I postponed to 9AM, when I actually already awake at 7AM but resisted to come out from bed.
I the end I got out from bed about 10AMish since I enjoyed playing with my itouch until I lose track of time.
It's still raining and I realised that it will be lunch soon so I opened my fridge to find that there's nothing for my lunch!
Actually I have something but I refuse to eat instant noodle or fried dumplings, I don't want to eat just eggs or floss.....
The only veggie I have is carrot, and no meat at all.
I looked out the window and see that it's still drizzling outside.
A huge dilemma come to my mind, what to do? Eat these stuff in the fridge or go out in the middle in this rain to buy something.
Nah, I'm not going to drench myself in the rain, it's gonna be an extremely busy weekend starting tomorrow, can't afford to get sick at all.
I decided to make.... risotto!
Yeah, only rice, carrots, onions and garlic as ingredients, lucky me having some stocks and spices ready all the time.
When I'm halfway to my cooking, my friend called and ask to go out for lunch, banzai!
I'll be able to buy something without rain as a hassle!
I think I'll have this risotto for tonight then. ;)
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Embracing Winter
Owie, it's so cold today!
What's worse, it's raining quite hard now and I still don't have any umbrellas!
I know I need to get ready, but I don't think I will be going to uni in this kind of weather.
I hope they rain will stop for about an hour to give me time to go to uni.
I can skip my classes of course but I don't want to do it since it's already week 10 and I never skip tutorials.
It's supposedly still Autumn these days, official snow period is still one month away yet it's expected to be snowy in the mountain region. Maybe it's time to consider it Winter now. The seasons are being upside down like when Summer didn't feel like summer at all and now Winter is coming a month ahead, global warming I suppose? Anyway, it's freezing especially in my room! I am planning to buy a portable heater this weekend, hope to find a good cheap heater.
The rain doesn't show any sign of stopping, maybe I really need to plan something.
Hopefully it stops in about an hour, I don't mind being late for lectures.
But if it doesn't stop in 2 hours, I really need to swallow vitamins and bring a tube of warm drinks along with me as preparation to be drenched in this freezing rain.
Fingers crossed!
What's worse, it's raining quite hard now and I still don't have any umbrellas!
I know I need to get ready, but I don't think I will be going to uni in this kind of weather.
I hope they rain will stop for about an hour to give me time to go to uni.
I can skip my classes of course but I don't want to do it since it's already week 10 and I never skip tutorials.
It's supposedly still Autumn these days, official snow period is still one month away yet it's expected to be snowy in the mountain region. Maybe it's time to consider it Winter now. The seasons are being upside down like when Summer didn't feel like summer at all and now Winter is coming a month ahead, global warming I suppose? Anyway, it's freezing especially in my room! I am planning to buy a portable heater this weekend, hope to find a good cheap heater.
The rain doesn't show any sign of stopping, maybe I really need to plan something.
Hopefully it stops in about an hour, I don't mind being late for lectures.
But if it doesn't stop in 2 hours, I really need to swallow vitamins and bring a tube of warm drinks along with me as preparation to be drenched in this freezing rain.
Fingers crossed!
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Melbourne's Coldest Morning
Not to exaggerate things but it's true.
This morning was recorded as Melbourne's coldest morning in April over the last 3 years!
Yup, 3.5 degree just before 6AM.
It was sunny today, but I should have known Melbourne better than that.
I thought it would be a nice warm weather outside so I decided to wear my 'not-so-thin-yet-not-so-thick' jacket.
As a result, I didn't feel comfortable today as the chilly weather got into my body, bah.
Despite this chilly experience, I had a quite nice day today.
My day started with my one and only morning class for today, which finished at 11AM.
Then I went to computer lab to print some study materials, continued by going to bookshop to take daily newspapers.
Then I decided to go to city, I thought it would be good to have lunch with my friends.
Guess what? I ended up having lunch alone, but that's fine though.
As soon as I arrived at the city, I met up with a friend whom I was planning to ask her to give movie voucher to her housemate.
Turned out that I messed this stupid unorganised brain of mine, she didn't ask for any movie vouchers, silly me.
No probs, I started preparing my lunch now.
I bought 4 macaroons for dessert, which are chocolate, coffee, hazelnut and pistachio.
Then I went to a famous sushi shop to buy a spider roll and an onigiri.
My meals are complete now, time to go to the venue.
I decided to go to Starbucks, where I ordered a tall Mocha and paid with Starbucks Card, schweet, no more cash payment for today, hehehh.
I sit myself into a wooden chair and comfort myself on this big table upstairs.
I really like big tables since I scatter my stuff on table.
After I finished my lunch (and dessert), I played with my ipod before starting to study.
I spent about 3 hours in Starbucks before I decided to go have a walk around the shopping precinct down there where I can see from my window.
I got myself a pair of knitted glove, now I've got my hands sound and warm outside.
Then I took the train back home in which, as it was peak hour, was not a convenient ride at all.
As soon as I reached home, my housemate and I started preparing for dinner.
We had pork curry and melon milk for our dinner.
And of course, as usual, we had dinner in living room while enjoying television. :)
Now it's 10.33PM, I had a nice hot organic fragrant green tea before bed.
Gonna enjoy French tutorial tomorrow, can't wait to give good news to my tutor. :)
This morning was recorded as Melbourne's coldest morning in April over the last 3 years!
Yup, 3.5 degree just before 6AM.
It was sunny today, but I should have known Melbourne better than that.
I thought it would be a nice warm weather outside so I decided to wear my 'not-so-thin-yet-not-so-thick' jacket.
As a result, I didn't feel comfortable today as the chilly weather got into my body, bah.
Despite this chilly experience, I had a quite nice day today.
My day started with my one and only morning class for today, which finished at 11AM.
Then I went to computer lab to print some study materials, continued by going to bookshop to take daily newspapers.
Then I decided to go to city, I thought it would be good to have lunch with my friends.
Guess what? I ended up having lunch alone, but that's fine though.
As soon as I arrived at the city, I met up with a friend whom I was planning to ask her to give movie voucher to her housemate.
Turned out that I messed this stupid unorganised brain of mine, she didn't ask for any movie vouchers, silly me.
No probs, I started preparing my lunch now.
I bought 4 macaroons for dessert, which are chocolate, coffee, hazelnut and pistachio.
Then I went to a famous sushi shop to buy a spider roll and an onigiri.
My meals are complete now, time to go to the venue.
I decided to go to Starbucks, where I ordered a tall Mocha and paid with Starbucks Card, schweet, no more cash payment for today, hehehh.
I sit myself into a wooden chair and comfort myself on this big table upstairs.
I really like big tables since I scatter my stuff on table.
After I finished my lunch (and dessert), I played with my ipod before starting to study.
I spent about 3 hours in Starbucks before I decided to go have a walk around the shopping precinct down there where I can see from my window.
I got myself a pair of knitted glove, now I've got my hands sound and warm outside.
Then I took the train back home in which, as it was peak hour, was not a convenient ride at all.
As soon as I reached home, my housemate and I started preparing for dinner.
We had pork curry and melon milk for our dinner.
And of course, as usual, we had dinner in living room while enjoying television. :)
Now it's 10.33PM, I had a nice hot organic fragrant green tea before bed.
Gonna enjoy French tutorial tomorrow, can't wait to give good news to my tutor. :)
Monday, May 9, 2011
10, 11, 12, 0.
It's week 10 semester 1 2011 for Monash Academic Year.
The stress should be piling up for most students as it's closer to exams and assignments are mostly due this week.
Not really for me.
My assignments mostly due on week 11 and 12, which still leaving me (a bit) stressed, not because they are due, but the number of assessments I'll be getting these 2 weeks!
I will have about 3 assessments due PER WEEK, how good is that?
At least I have time to schedule when to do what, which is better that having the initial week 10-12 assessment due until my lecturer moved those due dates to week 11 and 12.
Last week I didn't really do my assignments.
I studied French, since I'll have oral test in week 12 and I'm pretty sure last minute stuff doesn't work on languages.
AND, I was busy with my study planning.
I got to omit my plan to take winter semester which for silly reason I can't take the subjects. The first reason was late enrollment and I think it was dumb of me not emailing the subject coordinator despite the closing date of end March and announcement in website that information will be available early April. Second reason was unit requirement, fair enough.
That's one thing's done, now I've already planned what to do next semester.
Oh, and sometimes it's really really good to discuss things thoroughly with your family. I got the support I needed, and now I already know what I want to do after graduation. :)
Gloomy Melbourne's ahead this week, hope it only rain when I'm indoor, lol.
The stress should be piling up for most students as it's closer to exams and assignments are mostly due this week.
Not really for me.
My assignments mostly due on week 11 and 12, which still leaving me (a bit) stressed, not because they are due, but the number of assessments I'll be getting these 2 weeks!
I will have about 3 assessments due PER WEEK, how good is that?
At least I have time to schedule when to do what, which is better that having the initial week 10-12 assessment due until my lecturer moved those due dates to week 11 and 12.
Last week I didn't really do my assignments.
I studied French, since I'll have oral test in week 12 and I'm pretty sure last minute stuff doesn't work on languages.
AND, I was busy with my study planning.
I got to omit my plan to take winter semester which for silly reason I can't take the subjects. The first reason was late enrollment and I think it was dumb of me not emailing the subject coordinator despite the closing date of end March and announcement in website that information will be available early April. Second reason was unit requirement, fair enough.
That's one thing's done, now I've already planned what to do next semester.
Oh, and sometimes it's really really good to discuss things thoroughly with your family. I got the support I needed, and now I already know what I want to do after graduation. :)
Gloomy Melbourne's ahead this week, hope it only rain when I'm indoor, lol.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Each's Special Occasions in May
It's the 5th month of the year which mark that we're almost half-way through each year.
May is one of special month for me.
Because it's the month when my little brother is born.
Yes, it's today! I'm now waiting to make a phone call to Indonesia to congratulate him. :)
And it's kind of funny for my brother, if I have to say, because his birthday is exactly the same day, month and year as his two best friends, HBD!
So in total, there are 4 people having birthday today, but I think there are some more who is celebrating their birthday today, lol.
Today's also special for my friends who used to take same subjects as me since it's their graduation ceremony tonight! I'm happy for them even though I'm a bit envious.
Today's also kinda "special" for me.
Yes, tonight I'll be having mid semester test...
Great, huh? Just when everyone's celebrating today, I don't get to join in the festive mood. But I do hope that it's a good sign for me, for the test to be done just right for me, haha......
Anyone else's special occasion today?
May is one of special month for me.
Because it's the month when my little brother is born.
Yes, it's today! I'm now waiting to make a phone call to Indonesia to congratulate him. :)
And it's kind of funny for my brother, if I have to say, because his birthday is exactly the same day, month and year as his two best friends, HBD!
So in total, there are 4 people having birthday today, but I think there are some more who is celebrating their birthday today, lol.
Today's also special for my friends who used to take same subjects as me since it's their graduation ceremony tonight! I'm happy for them even though I'm a bit envious.
Today's also kinda "special" for me.
Yes, tonight I'll be having mid semester test...
Great, huh? Just when everyone's celebrating today, I don't get to join in the festive mood. But I do hope that it's a good sign for me, for the test to be done just right for me, haha......
Anyone else's special occasion today?
Monday, May 2, 2011
Winter Sensation
It is true when it was May 1st many people post things like "May low" (read: Mellow).
This week it's gonna be raining all day every day, or so I saw in the one week weather forecast, but I hope not.
It was still dark when I woke up at 6am this morning, I thought I woke up at about 3am when I opened my eyes. And it's true that in Australia you need to keep watching the weather forecasts, unlike in Indonesia at all where we don't bother a bit about tomorrow's weather.
It's good that despite all upcoming assignments and tests, I don't feel moody at all.
There's a bad part of it, I feel kinda relax yet stressed at the same time, I just don't know why. The only thing I know is that I am not ready yet and I need to start now! Wait, that'll make it 2 things.
Anyway, I had my usual breakfast menu, a bowl of cereal containing 2 weetbixes with some other cereals and a glass of coffee. I was enjoying reading Sunday's paper as well where they've got these travel articles I love most. How I wish I can spend my life traveling around the world like that. I also spend my morning reading my French textbook and browsing internet.
Hope this week will be a good week despite Melbourne's moody weathers.
I'm coming back to uni after a week and a day break!
This week it's gonna be raining all day every day, or so I saw in the one week weather forecast, but I hope not.
It was still dark when I woke up at 6am this morning, I thought I woke up at about 3am when I opened my eyes. And it's true that in Australia you need to keep watching the weather forecasts, unlike in Indonesia at all where we don't bother a bit about tomorrow's weather.
It's good that despite all upcoming assignments and tests, I don't feel moody at all.
There's a bad part of it, I feel kinda relax yet stressed at the same time, I just don't know why. The only thing I know is that I am not ready yet and I need to start now! Wait, that'll make it 2 things.
Anyway, I had my usual breakfast menu, a bowl of cereal containing 2 weetbixes with some other cereals and a glass of coffee. I was enjoying reading Sunday's paper as well where they've got these travel articles I love most. How I wish I can spend my life traveling around the world like that. I also spend my morning reading my French textbook and browsing internet.
Hope this week will be a good week despite Melbourne's moody weathers.
I'm coming back to uni after a week and a day break!
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Embracing May 2011
Today's Sunday, May 1st 2011.
I woke up at 7am. Early? Nah, this is the latest so far for my Sundays.
I've been working on Sundays this semester and this is my first Sunday of 2011 that I've got my Sundays off. :)
Today's plan:
Brunch
Grocery shopping
Body Combat
Chat with family
French assignment
Study for mid-test
Quite a bunch of list and need to be done today!
That's fine, new month, new resolution.
Oh, and my brother's birthday is in May, am looking forward for it, even though I won't be able to celebrate it with him.
I woke up at 7am. Early? Nah, this is the latest so far for my Sundays.
I've been working on Sundays this semester and this is my first Sunday of 2011 that I've got my Sundays off. :)
Today's plan:
Brunch
Grocery shopping
Body Combat
Chat with family
French assignment
Study for mid-test
Quite a bunch of list and need to be done today!
That's fine, new month, new resolution.
Oh, and my brother's birthday is in May, am looking forward for it, even though I won't be able to celebrate it with him.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Not My End Yet Has To Be
I'm back again.
Not even one week since I blogged, that's good, need to keep this up.
Many things happened this Easter.
I didn't have any work on Friday, but they still pay me for 5 hours.
(Yes I've checked my payslip!)
I worked for 9 hours on Saturday, but yeah, they haven't pay me for my overtime...
Why? Because they paid my salary on Thursday when my work is on the weekend.
Weird huh?
And normal work normal pay on Sunday.
But good news, I've got my Sunday of starting this week!
My next target is asking for holiday in June or transfer to other branch.
I do hope to get other branch so I don't need to wake up at freaking 4am on weekends!
So in the weekend, I worked, watch movie and had dinner with my friends.
On Monday I went snorkeling at Mornington, then shabu-shabu on Tuesday.
Yesterday I had lunch at Moonee Ponds.
I still have until this weekend before my holiday ends.
But yeah, June is my exam period, so I need to focus on my study starting.... TODAY!
So it's not really a holiday, it's just mid-break.
I just finished my laundry, time to study and do my assignments....
Oh wait, maybe I need to have lunch first!
Not even one week since I blogged, that's good, need to keep this up.
Many things happened this Easter.
I didn't have any work on Friday, but they still pay me for 5 hours.
(Yes I've checked my payslip!)
I worked for 9 hours on Saturday, but yeah, they haven't pay me for my overtime...
Why? Because they paid my salary on Thursday when my work is on the weekend.
Weird huh?
And normal work normal pay on Sunday.
But good news, I've got my Sunday of starting this week!
My next target is asking for holiday in June or transfer to other branch.
I do hope to get other branch so I don't need to wake up at freaking 4am on weekends!
So in the weekend, I worked, watch movie and had dinner with my friends.
On Monday I went snorkeling at Mornington, then shabu-shabu on Tuesday.
Yesterday I had lunch at Moonee Ponds.
I still have until this weekend before my holiday ends.
But yeah, June is my exam period, so I need to focus on my study starting.... TODAY!
So it's not really a holiday, it's just mid-break.
I just finished my laundry, time to study and do my assignments....
Oh wait, maybe I need to have lunch first!
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Catching-up Before Easter
Wew, I believe it has been such long long time ago since I last posted blog here.
There are too many things going on that it will be too long to write here.
Maybe I'll just update briefly on some stuff.....
I've moved out from my apartment like.... one months or so?
Yep, moved from city back to Glen Waverley, the first suburb I lived when I first arrived to Australia.
At first I thought that I can do the moving out stuff (removal) by myself (and the removalist of course) and I intended to do it that way.
Why don't I ask for anyone's help? Hmmm....
Firstly, I'm naturally a passive person.
Secondly, if I can do it myself, I'll do it myself, I don't want to be too dependent on people.
Then.... I don't know, maybe those two are the reasons.
Then there are these friends who offered their help. I was happy that they're concerned with me, I know who to call friends.:)
And yeah, without them it will be disaster...
So they deserve a treat from me yeah? I treated them to Ying Thai, a thai restaurant in Lygon street which is apparently quite popular among Indonesians. Yep, I want to show them how grateful I am, even though I wanted to give them something better if only without money limitation....
Ok, move on.
I'm quite enjoying my time here in Glen Waverley.
It's peaceful, it's nice, it's closer to uni.
It's just too far from my workplace though..... T__T
And it seems like I've been having weird dreams every week.
They are interesting dreams, kinda cool if I have to say it, haha....
Now, back to the present.
Easter is here! Yep, even though it's only Thursday, I've started my Easter break as Thursdays are my day-offs! :)
Been doing the laundry, washing my shoes and eating the whole morning till now.
And yeah, this is the first time this semester that I woke up at 9.30!
I almost forget this sensation, hahaa....
There will be many things going on this Easter...
Church, BBQ (not necessarily called a bbq), snorkeling, water rafting....
Oh, and a big banzai for 5-hour paid Friday as it's a public holiday, 2.5 times wages on my 8-hour shift on Thursday and 1.5 times wages on my either 7 or 8 hours shift on Sunday! A gold mine I reckon!
Ok then, time to iron my clothes. :)
There are too many things going on that it will be too long to write here.
Maybe I'll just update briefly on some stuff.....
I've moved out from my apartment like.... one months or so?
Yep, moved from city back to Glen Waverley, the first suburb I lived when I first arrived to Australia.
At first I thought that I can do the moving out stuff (removal) by myself (and the removalist of course) and I intended to do it that way.
Why don't I ask for anyone's help? Hmmm....
Firstly, I'm naturally a passive person.
Secondly, if I can do it myself, I'll do it myself, I don't want to be too dependent on people.
Then.... I don't know, maybe those two are the reasons.
Then there are these friends who offered their help. I was happy that they're concerned with me, I know who to call friends.:)
And yeah, without them it will be disaster...
So they deserve a treat from me yeah? I treated them to Ying Thai, a thai restaurant in Lygon street which is apparently quite popular among Indonesians. Yep, I want to show them how grateful I am, even though I wanted to give them something better if only without money limitation....
Ok, move on.
I'm quite enjoying my time here in Glen Waverley.
It's peaceful, it's nice, it's closer to uni.
It's just too far from my workplace though..... T__T
And it seems like I've been having weird dreams every week.
They are interesting dreams, kinda cool if I have to say it, haha....
Now, back to the present.
Easter is here! Yep, even though it's only Thursday, I've started my Easter break as Thursdays are my day-offs! :)
Been doing the laundry, washing my shoes and eating the whole morning till now.
And yeah, this is the first time this semester that I woke up at 9.30!
I almost forget this sensation, hahaa....
There will be many things going on this Easter...
Church, BBQ (not necessarily called a bbq), snorkeling, water rafting....
Oh, and a big banzai for 5-hour paid Friday as it's a public holiday, 2.5 times wages on my 8-hour shift on Thursday and 1.5 times wages on my either 7 or 8 hours shift on Sunday! A gold mine I reckon!
Ok then, time to iron my clothes. :)
Thursday, March 10, 2011
My True Day-off
This semester, I'm only have Thursday as my day-off.
Well, usually that's very good coz I'll be having weekend as my day-offs as well.
It turned out that it's not going that way.
I'm having work Friday-Sunday every week!
To make things worse, my weekend shift is the long shift of 7 hours each!
And that will make me get out from work at about 2-3pm.
On Fridays, work till afternoon, then straight 4 hours lecture, finishing at 6pm.
On Saturdays, work till 2-3pm then I've got some time to hang out.
On Sundays, work till 2-3pm then going to church before some time for myself.
All my shifts start at 7am which force me to sleep earlier the day before.
To conclude everything, I only got a tiny bit of afternoon and tiny bit of evening on weekends for myself, i.e. no life!
Let's look at the good side:
1. I won't be drinking
2. I won't be out till midnight
3. Now I'm a morning person
4. Double pay on Sunday shifts. :)
I can expect to pay my own expenses now thanks to work.
That includes rent, meals, transport, and shopping.
I will have some savings as well.
All Weekends gone, now my REAL Day-off is truly Thursday.
It's raining today but I'm sure I'll be enjoying Thursdays from now on.
I don't care if it's raining or not, I'm going to get the so-called best butter croissant in Melbourne.
I went there last year in the afternoon just to find that they ran out of butter croissant, pity.
That time, I tried their brownies instead and it was really really good!
I'm thinking to buy some again, perhaps.
Ok, I'm off!
Well, usually that's very good coz I'll be having weekend as my day-offs as well.
It turned out that it's not going that way.
I'm having work Friday-Sunday every week!
To make things worse, my weekend shift is the long shift of 7 hours each!
And that will make me get out from work at about 2-3pm.
On Fridays, work till afternoon, then straight 4 hours lecture, finishing at 6pm.
On Saturdays, work till 2-3pm then I've got some time to hang out.
On Sundays, work till 2-3pm then going to church before some time for myself.
All my shifts start at 7am which force me to sleep earlier the day before.
To conclude everything, I only got a tiny bit of afternoon and tiny bit of evening on weekends for myself, i.e. no life!
Let's look at the good side:
1. I won't be drinking
2. I won't be out till midnight
3. Now I'm a morning person
4. Double pay on Sunday shifts. :)
I can expect to pay my own expenses now thanks to work.
That includes rent, meals, transport, and shopping.
I will have some savings as well.
All Weekends gone, now my REAL Day-off is truly Thursday.
It's raining today but I'm sure I'll be enjoying Thursdays from now on.
I don't care if it's raining or not, I'm going to get the so-called best butter croissant in Melbourne.
I went there last year in the afternoon just to find that they ran out of butter croissant, pity.
That time, I tried their brownies instead and it was really really good!
I'm thinking to buy some again, perhaps.
Ok, I'm off!
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Going Home
Hi, I'm going home today. :)
Going home as in back to Indonesia.
I'll stay at Jakarta for about a week before flying back to my hometown and I'll be in Indonesia for a month.
Hope it's going to be a pleasant trip and joyful holiday for me.
Ciao
Going home as in back to Indonesia.
I'll stay at Jakarta for about a week before flying back to my hometown and I'll be in Indonesia for a month.
Hope it's going to be a pleasant trip and joyful holiday for me.
Ciao
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Where is the Future?
Today it was raining the whole day.
What's worse, it was very hot despite the sky being cloudy.
I spent most of my time in public transport today.
Tram: Was like hell, I got free sauna.
Train: The best of all, I got to relax as it is air conditioned.
Bus: The first one was smelly as it had no air condition and it was old but the second bus I took this day was much better.
Well yeah, that's all about the public transport in summer, when the weather's hot.....
On the journey I had, I was thinking a lot of things....
What I will be doing this year? In the future?
Good thing that I finished almost all things I need to do, I have time for myself to do a reflection. I was thinking like what I want to do, now and in the future.
I still have no idea yet on what I want to do in the future though.
I know I need to take it slowly, but yeah, can't help getting excited, curious, and scared at the same time.
I'm thinking of taking IELTS again, with aim of 8 overall!
Kinda dreaming, but Need to aim higher and higher from now on.
2010 had taught me heaps of stuff, in a painful way.
I don't want to learn that way, it should be the last.
I'll change slowly, but in a certain speed that I won't be left behind.
I need to create my own future and for that to happen I need to do my best!
Resolution for 2011: Graduate, Get PR, Get full-time JOB!
What's worse, it was very hot despite the sky being cloudy.
I spent most of my time in public transport today.
Tram: Was like hell, I got free sauna.
Train: The best of all, I got to relax as it is air conditioned.
Bus: The first one was smelly as it had no air condition and it was old but the second bus I took this day was much better.
Well yeah, that's all about the public transport in summer, when the weather's hot.....
On the journey I had, I was thinking a lot of things....
What I will be doing this year? In the future?
Good thing that I finished almost all things I need to do, I have time for myself to do a reflection. I was thinking like what I want to do, now and in the future.
I still have no idea yet on what I want to do in the future though.
I know I need to take it slowly, but yeah, can't help getting excited, curious, and scared at the same time.
I'm thinking of taking IELTS again, with aim of 8 overall!
Kinda dreaming, but Need to aim higher and higher from now on.
2010 had taught me heaps of stuff, in a painful way.
I don't want to learn that way, it should be the last.
I'll change slowly, but in a certain speed that I won't be left behind.
I need to create my own future and for that to happen I need to do my best!
Resolution for 2011: Graduate, Get PR, Get full-time JOB!
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
First week of 2011
Yep, New year means transition of time!
We're now in 2011.
I had my 21st b'day on 31st Dec 2010.
Had my besties threw a surprise party midnight.
Honestly, I didn't though they'll do it midnight.
I just thought that only one person will come, coz he kept saying that.
Well, maybe I'm still too naive, eh?
Anyway, Exactly a month ago, I tried this Legend burger from Maccas.
And guess what? My b'day cake was exactly the SAME meal I had when I first reached Tazzie!
Legend burger, nuggets and fries... Talk about coincidence?
I had heaps of fun even if I need to wake up very early in the morning.
No, I can't say morning at all, I need to wake up at DAWN!
And that's really what I did, woke up at 4AM since I have work at 5AM.
I know it's very early, but I was lucky since my colleague passed by with his car on my way to work so he gave me a lift!
There was only headache on first 2-3 hours of work, it was my first time not really enjoying work there.....
But after I had a hang of it everything was fine.
Then At night I had Japanese fine dining, which was really good, and a "little" bit of sake.
On midnight, we watched firework to welcome 2011.
Some phrases that I could still recall clearly:
HAPPY NEW YEAR
and....
a sweet HAPPY BIRTHDAY being singed with me in the middle. :)
After that I had a bit splash of water, luckily it was only from one bottle of mineral water.
So far this week is being good to me.
I know I had heaps of 'to-do' list, but somehow I am still to lazy to do all of them, haha.....
I had my pay from my hard work at the end of 2011, hard work paid of!
I want to save at least half of it and spend the rest to reward myself.
When? Maybe this Friday will be good, I was planning to do it today but I'm too lazy to go to city, lol.
We're now in 2011.
I had my 21st b'day on 31st Dec 2010.
Had my besties threw a surprise party midnight.
Honestly, I didn't though they'll do it midnight.
I just thought that only one person will come, coz he kept saying that.
Well, maybe I'm still too naive, eh?
Anyway, Exactly a month ago, I tried this Legend burger from Maccas.
And guess what? My b'day cake was exactly the SAME meal I had when I first reached Tazzie!
Legend burger, nuggets and fries... Talk about coincidence?
I had heaps of fun even if I need to wake up very early in the morning.
No, I can't say morning at all, I need to wake up at DAWN!
And that's really what I did, woke up at 4AM since I have work at 5AM.
I know it's very early, but I was lucky since my colleague passed by with his car on my way to work so he gave me a lift!
There was only headache on first 2-3 hours of work, it was my first time not really enjoying work there.....
But after I had a hang of it everything was fine.
Then At night I had Japanese fine dining, which was really good, and a "little" bit of sake.
On midnight, we watched firework to welcome 2011.
Some phrases that I could still recall clearly:
HAPPY NEW YEAR
and....
a sweet HAPPY BIRTHDAY being singed with me in the middle. :)
After that I had a bit splash of water, luckily it was only from one bottle of mineral water.
So far this week is being good to me.
I know I had heaps of 'to-do' list, but somehow I am still to lazy to do all of them, haha.....
I had my pay from my hard work at the end of 2011, hard work paid of!
I want to save at least half of it and spend the rest to reward myself.
When? Maybe this Friday will be good, I was planning to do it today but I'm too lazy to go to city, lol.