Job Offers

At first I thought that today was such a bad day.

I overslept, I slacked, and I was late for a resume check which is very important as I am applying for an Industry Based Learning in Monash.
The application itself is due this Friday and I am left with the 500-word statement to be checked before I send my application.

Moreover, it was such a hot day in the morning, I was sweating a lot and I even thought that summer came too early to Melbourne.

In campus, I strayed myself around.
I printed study materials, I had lunch, I drank coffee, I browsed internet, etc etc.....

Then my group mate called to meet for assignment. The group meeting was supposed to be at 12pm and it was 2pm when she called me.... =___=
When I was to go to the meeting place which is located in different building, there was a storm, it rained heavily and I was like, "S**t!"

And here I went with my determination for assignment, rushing through rain. I was wet from head to toe. And guess what time my friends came? 2.35pm, great.....

While we were having a meeting,I got a call from Red Energy, an energy company located in Richmond. She offered me a telesales assistant position as I was not selected in the other 2 jobs that I applied. It will be an interesting job as I will be dealing with phone calls. It's an Australian company so I'm sure I'll be able to develop myself in Australian culture. What's better, the environment won't be that bad as she said that there are a lot of students doing part-time in that company.
The pay itself is quite good I think, the job required me to spare 20-hour per week and I'll get $40,000 p.a pro rata.

What's the definition of pro-rata? I searched through Google and the easiest definition was found through Yahoo! Answer:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070806141022AAR4GhC

So that means that I'll be getting about $20,000p.a if I work part-time.
If I got accepted here (I will hear the decision this Friday), I cannot take other part-time jobs as I will breach my visa if I do so.

But I can do it, as it's going to be summer holiday, so I can work MORE!

Then there is this call from New Zealand Ice Cream, she offered me a job as well and wished to have an interview asap. I arranged it for this Friday morning. I'm sure this week is going to be a very hectic week for me indeed.....

She required me to do at least 4 6-hour shifts per week, so a minimum of 24 hours per week during summer!

And I'm going to do a Group Assessment with Woolworths as well tomorrow, well, group assessment is just like a group interview where they also test your abilities....

So, which one should I choose?

Never Ending Cycle

Well, we live in this world with several cycles going on and on forever.

It's good if we can have long happy life and short sadness within, yet reality is cruel.
Ever since I entered Uni, my life cycle has been a terrible one, especially this year.

Short happiness, long pain which leave unforgettable scar.

Well, at certain point, I feel that it's a valuable experience which I won't get if I didn't come to Australia for sure. But some of this pain.... I just want to forget it, I want to leave it, I want to destroy this cycle.

What do you feel when you are a soft person living with 2 obstinate housemates?
It's terrible really, sometimes I'm regretting my decision moving out (with them), but there are some experiences that I won't get if I didn't do that.
It is a cycle just like war, kept on repeating itself even when it's solved before, leaving another scar which one could not forget.
I'm just tired at the moment, seeing this condition, I moved here since I wished for a peaceful life, everyone in the house are close, I just wished for a warm place that I can call "home" just like my real home in Indonesia.

And now I know that it's just a wishful thinking, you won't find it.
All I need to do is just bear for it until next year, then I'll move with my brother who's coming to Melbourne! (not confirmed though)

What if he cancel the arrangement and decided to study somewhere else? Duh, I'll just move to a one-bedroom apartment or a share apartment instead, at least I don't need to care for the other party. I learn from my current housemates how to be hard-headed, should I say thanks?

Well, at least I've changed, regardless of this childish act, I'm still learning and I hope I'll be mature soon, so I can look for my brother here and give him guidance.
Somehow this is the only reason why I have not transferred to Malaysia, been wishing to go there for so long...

Anyway, what's wrong with me? It seems like I've been complaining when I'm blogging, ahahaa..... Sorry, but this is the only place that I can complain since I don't feel like complaining in either facebook nor twitter, too many people can see it.

Phew, I've been blogging all this time putting so few pictures, eh?
My friends who blogged always put some pictures, but in fact I'm so lazy to do that, ahaha.... I'll try my best to put pictures next time.

Ok, back to study, ciao!

End of Mid-break

Today.....

Daylight Saving starts,
is a warm and sunnny day,
I've got work at 6-9.30pm,
is the END OF MY MID-BREAK!

I've been having these negative thoughts because of it.
Maybe because I'll be having my exam in 3 weeks, I'm starting to freak out.
I still need time to study, my study mood hasn't come back to be, and I've got a little bit of trauma.

From this stressful feeling, I am thinking that I need some refreshment while studying bit by bit. So yesterday I went to my friend's house to cook together and enjoy lunch.
It's also to celebrate one of my friend's b'day who had her b'day earlier this week.

It was good. But there is one thing which ruin everything, work.
I am currently working at a Malaysian restaurant as a waiter.
The pay was not that good, but the colleagues and the work itself are satisfactory.
The problem is, yesterday was such a hectic day, I can still comprehend that. However, I met so many 'hard-to-deal-with' customers and it annoys me, for 5 freaking hours!
There are so many friends that I know who went to eat there, good to talk with them, but there is this one guy, acting all high and mighty (in my eyes) even if he's not better than me, the way he acted was like he was looking down at me. "Just PISS OFF!" is what I thought, his condition is nothing to be proud of yet he dare to do that? Ok, they tease me a bit, it's not a bad thing EXCEPT that they can't see others mood, and I was such a moody person that I am annoyed to the max.
At least I've got such a calm and cool (as well as ignorant at some certain point) personality that I've get to deal with all those 5-hour of work without any food or drink! I was at disbelieve as well, my colleagues at the bar didn't make any drinks for me even if I've asked the 3 times, once every hour, and their excuse was that they were very busy even if they were able to make drinks for everyone else except me, duh....

What ruined my day was this housemate of mine who's stressing out about his assignment.
No need to go for further details about his assignment, but I tried my best to support him all this time, trying to break the ice as much as I can.
And guess what, he recorded me. I forced him to delete it and he refused.
You need to know, he was so pissed of before when I recorded him, and I complied by deleting the file. See? Such a childish act of him.
Moreover, he kept on playing the video, laughing as much as he can.
I started to stop comprehending, I'm just too tired and too mad that time (not that I have stopped my anger though.
He kept on saying, I'm the type of people who remember." Yeah right, as if you remember on the case that I just mention before, he must have forgotten that, duh.
I DO REMEMBER AS WELL, and once it's gotten in my mind, it's there just like a root!

There are times when people need to apologise directly, especially in this case. Why? Because he's holding the video which I demand to delete. If he apologise today, I can get suspicious that he already back it up somewhere.

Oh well, he's the type who don't apologise anyway, can't expect much from any of my housemates. At least I get to know more even if I'm sick of it. I'm sick of this house already, glad to know it now, before extending contract or moving together to other place. Maybe I'm the type who need to stay in a one-bedroom apartment afterall.....

Oh such a negative minds I'm having, just wondering why all bad things have to be dumped on me at the same time, I'm hating it.

Ok, sunny day outside, need to be more positive, nothing you can do over something bad which happened already.

What to do? Think positive and think of what I can do for things like this not to happen again. I think I need to start browsing for those one-bedroom property for rent. Hey, wait, Let's just focus on exam first, that can come after that. :p

Welcoming Mid-break

Yep, mid-break is officially started for Monash University students in Australia!

A lot of things happened since last time I blogged, will surely miss things to say here indeed, like what happened last time.

Oh well, this semester's mid-break won't be as exciting as the others. I won't get enough time for myself to enjoy it at all, I think I'll be spending it for my study.
I've been slacking bit by bit, and now I realised that the workload I need spare for my study has gone HUGE!!!!!!

Yeah, study, volunteer stuff, work, etc etc.....
It's very hectic indeed.
Moreover, me being asked to be a secretary, hope it's not going to be too much for me, I need to bear with it, I need to stay strong and focus, that's what I've been telling myself up to now.
I know I need to leave my childish part of me away, far far away......
It is not an instant act that will make me change straight away, however....
I believe with little spice of positive attitude on everything I do will make BIG changes in the future.

OK, time to get some rest. ^^

Such a Late Lunch

Wow, look at the time.

I just finished my lunch, it's 3.59PM.

I had my breakfast about 12PM, just one pack of indomie.
At first I was cooking porridge for my lunch, but I realised that cooking porridge will take a lot of time and I was starving that time.

Then I was too busy switching from laundry to assignment then to laundry again.
At least I've finished 50% of my part, need to finish it soon, otherwise my groupmates will be VERY MAD!!!! >___<

This is the worst part of me being sick, I want porridge or soup badly for my meal.
That's how I started to cook porridge.
My mistake is: Cooking it using rice cooker.
I think this rice cooker is designed to boil all water in it, that's how it leaves only the rice over and over again regardless of the water I added.

At least it tastes good. :D
Ok, continue working on assignment....

"It's 2010!"

"Mate, It's 2010! Anything can happen!"

Is what people kept on saying.
Sounds true and so normal to hear weird stuff.
Surprised at first and get used to it with the flow of time.
But we only see and hear those stories.

So, the question is, "How if you experience that?"
I was shocked at first....
After get reminded by the phrase 'it's 2010!', do I feel better?
Not really.

Hence, experiencing is a totally different stuff from hearing or seeing it.
Silly isn't it? I know that, but came to understand it just now....
This is what you call learning, there's only a thin difference between knowing and understanding....

So what's this experience? You guys must be wondering it for awhile now.
Unfortunately, it's for you all to find out, coz I'm not writing it here!

Busy Assessment Week

This week is such a busy week, I have to go to Uni every day, Monday-Friday, despite having Monday and Friday off this semester.

There are a lot of group meetings this week, maybe because there are many assessments due soon.

I have presentation, test, and assignment due this week!

Tomorrow I'll be having the presentation, fortunately this is a group presentation, so I should be fine here.

Thursday, test.... God, haven't really studied for the test at all! Maybe I'm buying the textbook for real tomorrow, I don't really get what they are saying in the lecture slides and tutorial answers, I'm screwed!
I really need to score well in tests as they are worth like.... about 30% of final mark!
Damn, hope I have enough time, I'll be revising my tutorials and past test papers for tonight!

Assignment.... I have one due this Sunday and another one Friday next week. Maybe this is the reason of the unbelievable number of group meetings I'm having this week, it's practically everyday except Tuesday, which is today.

Ahh..... By the way, I didn't go to uni today, I created my own day off just for today, just want to cool off for a bit. :)
I spent my day relaxing, cooking, cleaning, and of course.... study and do assignment.

And now, the clock shows 11.45PM, I need to come to uni at 10AM or 11AM tomorrow, so I think I'll be sleeping soon. Especially after a workout in the gym, I'm sure I need about 8-hour of sleep time. XP