Light After Dark

Monday was bright
Tuesday was raining
Wednesday was another rain

Thursday, 12 August 2010
Woke up at 8AM again, surely missed the (going-to-be) replacement lecture that was missed on Tuesday. Oh well, at least not overslept for Thursdays, was supposed to wake up by this time anyway.

Ok, daily ritual of turning on Macbook before doing anything else, such a bad habit. Checking out facebook, twitter, and emails. Got an unsuccessful job application from AESOP, maybe it was regarding the storeperson, couldn't recall as has sent out many job applications via emails.....

Preparing usual takeaway coffee while having breakfast in the kitchen. Been eating this chocolate weetbix with milk this week. As for coffee, using Starbucks cup, it's still Kenyan Style Mocha with no sugar, hmmm...

Like how own daily life is, enjoyed the morning too much and it's already 9.15, rushed out.

Almost missed the 9.20 Cranbourne train if it was not for the 5-minute delay by metro. Reached Huntingdale Station by 9.55, 900 bus leaves at 10AM, that's good. This is the first time that I'm not (so) late to my 10AM tutorial on Thursdays, usually I'll reach Uni at 10.20, but today is only 5-minute late, that's considerably good.

4-hour straight of classes today, the tutorial was kind of boring and confusing, maybe it's because didn't do any revision anything yet. Pension lecture was as boring as usual, but at least Auditing lecture was more exciting.

This afternoon is as cold as last two days, complaints by my surrounding was like the rain itself, drops after drops. Now time to go home, feeling sleepy somehow. It's quite weird to feel sleepy in the afternoon.

Reached home, turning Mac on. No, too sleepy, couldn't take it anymore, it's 3.30PM, better get some sleep, put alarm on 5PM.

Ah, roommate is back, 4PM, bugger it, couldn't care less, just go back to sleep, covering whole body with dunner.

5PM, roommate was shocked, didn't expect that am home. Now can't sleep anymore, especially after receiving a phone call.

Start cooking, saw an interesting recipe, a mushroom-chicken croquette recipe. Took longer than expected, and surprisingly hard. Finished cooking at 8PM, 3-hour cooking 16 pieces of croquettes, deep frying left.

Put 10 pieces into freezer, when about to start deep frying suddenly mobile rang. Was a call from Officework, sudden phone interview. Very happy, will be notified about the outcome, if successful there will be face-to-face interview.

Having dinner in front of Mac while chatting with siblings, then do cleaning. There were several good things happened that will be too long to be written. Was gloomy past several days, good to experience nice things.

11.24AM
still awake, will go to sleep soon. Finishing blog.............

The Rain

It's raining (Again) today....
I was about to apply at South Melbourne and now had no will at all as I need to WALK there!
Ok, so I decided to stay at home instead, wishing for the rain to stop soon as I will be having classes this afternoon.

Let's say.... I'll wait for an hour?
I'll just do my tute while waiting, or doing my work.
Oh, talking about work, I've been paid! That was quick! XD
I thought the money will be credited to my account next week or so, haha....

Anyway, let's get back to what I need to do. :)

Job Hunting Week

This week I'm going around dropping resumes in hope to get a part-time/casual job.

Yesterday (Monday) dropped my resumes in South Melbourne.
The first resume went to Max Brenner, but unfortunately they are not hiring at the moment, but I still gave my resume.
The second resume I drop was for a western restaurant, they put up a sign at the entrance that they are hiring, so I dropped a resume there. But I don't really hope to get one there, still good though if I can get the job.

Today (Tuesday) I went around CBD area dropping my resumes in Pancake Parlour @Bourke and Officework in QV. My friend who is working at Pancake Parlour said that they keep on hiring people so I hope that I can get the job interview soon. As for Officework, they said that they are not looking for a part-timer at the moment, but there might be a casual position available, so I encouraged myself to fill in the application.

As for tommorow, I'll be going around in South Melbourne again.
It's because I originally wanted to drop my resume at Nandos and Coles there, and somehow I forgot that time. As I'll be having afternoon classes tommorow, I'm thinking of dropping my resume there before uni.

I also browsed around the internet and found 2 exciting jobs, I'll call to enquire regarding the job tommorrow. I hope I can get one of these jobs!

This is What happened if you happened to be a Newbie! (@ebay!)

I just signed up at ebay few days ago.
Why? I was not interested in it at all these few years!
FYI, I browsed ebay for the first time about 2-3 years ago, when I was looking to buy a new phone.

Ok, here's the story how I got an ebay membership.....

There is a new release of this packaged CD-DVD, containing music, game, and some kind of drama (vocal only).
I was looking foward to buy this for months.
I usually pre-order it months before it's released, as I've been buying products from this publisher for quite some time now.
The last time I pre-ordered was about 3 months back, I ordered it just one or two weeks before the product is released, and I actually got the product.

Soooo....
I did the same with this one, ordering it just exactly one week before its released.
And I know you all can guess the outcome, they are currently out of stock, the orders they are getting are overflowing.
Oh right, I didn't anticipated this one. It is true that this one will be twice as popular from the previous two I ordered and I didn't think about it at all until this happened, so immature of me.

At first I was kind of giving up to get it.
But when I was browsing the internet, I saw these limited edition items that you can get by pre-ordering! Oh My God......
I can't resist anymore, I gathered all my courage to browse around and look for anyone who sell it!

I found one in Japan, but they don't do international shipments, pity.
Then I found some in..... ebay.com.au! Banzai!!!!
They did overcharge me though, as expected, well, at least I created my chance to own this item!
Ok, ebay required me to sign up before I can proceed with my purchase.
So that's how I ended up having an ebay account, with accidental ID name of iyos3663!

So that's finished....
What happened after that?
Oh my, ebay got so many products, with unbelievable prices!
So I browsed myself, wishing to find a bedside table and a coffee machine, and ended up looking at iPad and iPhone 4!
iPads prices are really pricey, even if they are on low price, I still can't afford it.
How about iPhones? The 3GS models are surely cheap, but look at those iPhone 4s prices!
Most of them are on the $1k band, some might be cheaper on $800s.
I found one BRAND NEW iPhone 4 32GB on $380!
I was too tempted and bid, bid, and bid until it got to $420.
Let's see the outcome in 2 days, when the bid will end, I won't spend more than $500 for this though, haha.....
Will be my luck if I can get this iPhone 4, hope it won't be bad as it's issued. ^^

Start of Semester 2 2010

Ok, I admit last semester was hectic!
Nothing really goes right, only mess everywhere.
I realised that I was too idealistic sometimes.
And I learnt my lesson.

Maybe God has His own plan for me which I don't understand at the moment.
He let me fall and crushed myself on the floor.
It's hurt, the pain is still here right now and I don't know when it will heal.
And even it heals someday, the large scar will remain for eternity.

There are times when I want to cry.
There are times when I want to give up.
There are times when I am just to tired of this life.

But I'm lucky that when I am in that state, there are people supporting me around.
I might still need some more support, not that I'm in Melbourne.
But I need to realise that I'm totally alone here, there is no such shoulder for me to lean on.

I wish this semester will be much better than the previous one.
I wish to correct my mistakes.
I wish to start anew.
I wish I won't stray once more.

Going Back Home, to Jogja

Ok, it's already July 4th, it's time for me to go back to Indonesia, my hometown Jogjakarta to be exact. :)

It's only few months since I came back, but I'm sure there should be quite considerable changes there.

Time sure flies very quick, I've already spent one-week in Malaysia.
I went to lots of places, enjoying the food, walking around, relaxing, playing, etc etc.
Everything I did in Malaysia was my quality time and I'm enjoying it.
But I didn't just holidaying here, I've been learning many things as well.

It's 5:52AM, less than 30 minutes to boarding time, I'll be taking the 7AM flight with AirAsia.
Honestly, I haven't got any sleep at all, not because of excitement or anything, but I was browsing internet and chatting with my sister until midnight. Then we decided not to sleep since we were afraid that we'll be overslept, haha....

So here we are, waiting for our flight with dizziness, feeling very sleepy.
Well, I don't really feel it though, coz I didn't sleep for few days in the exam period, so I'm kind of getting used to it, LOL.

Ok2, now it's already 15 minutes prior to our boarding time, wow, browsing while blogging sure consumes my time faster than I expected.
I'd better focus on browsing instead, hehe....

Kuala Lumpur!

And YES! I'm here!

I'm currently staying at my sister's apartment in Mentari Court, Petaling Jaya.
It's around Sunway area, where Monash Uni, Sunway College, Taylor's College, and INTI College campuses are. So you can imagine the vast number of students around here.

It's my third day here, but I only walked around this area, since my sister is having her exam. I only went to Sunway Pyramid and Taylor's College.

And I did infiltrate to Taylor's College succesfully today, haha....
While my sister is doing her exam, I stayed in the library reading books.
The library in Taylor's College is much more interesting than Monash' somehow, maybe because of its variety of collections and atmosphere.

FYI, Taylor's Lakeside Campus' design is based on modern-tropical concept.
It's very beautiful with artificial lake in the center.
Most of the buildings are white in colour, and there are a lot of windows, enabling sunlight to come into the rooms.
The library is affected by this design and hence the library is bright.
The modern architecture and furniture are also nice, I love observing these kind of stuff, hehe......

When I first arrived in the library, I found Wall Street Journal in the newspaper section located in the ground level of the library, just next to the information centre near the entrance. So I decided to browse some news as I haven't really read news these few days.

Then I went up to level one, finding out that there are tons of variety of magazines, architecture, business, National Georaphic, Fortune, CPA, Accounting, Hospitality, Food, etc etc etc.......

I read through some Architecture Magazines, they got very interesting buildings in it. :)

Then I decided to went up to level 2, and found a lot of thick books unlike the ones I saw from previous levels. Then I took few books about beverages, here they are:


Interesting books? They are!
I finished reading one of them: The basic of Coffee!
I'll be staying in the library as well tomorrow and I hope I can finish the basic of tea and bartender book. ;)

Ok then, it's 1 AM and my sister is going to have exam in the morning, better get some sleep!