Wednesday, April 27, 2005, 11:17 AM

hello hello...

yet another freaky autumn day... the sun's shining, the wind's blowing cold and you see people walking around in jumpers whilst others are wearing micro-mini shorts and tank tops with havaianas thongs. hmmm... how to discern the split personalities of Sydney Uni's students?

anyways, here i am, in the library... checking my email cos i've got 3 hours of break today and yea, i have some unfinished assignments to do which are both concurrently dued next week so i think i should get cracking on it but nah.. i think i'll leave it till i'm done messing around with my blog.

people all around me are working very hard on THEIR assignments though... i keep catching flashes of 'Abstract's and references on their open microsoft word page.... funny, how everyone else is mega busy but here's little old me typing away trying to make an excessively witty blog post which even falls short of the term 'entertaining' and which i don't think most people will read and even if they do their only comment would be 'lame' and 'whinging POM' (incidentally, POM stands for Prisoner Of his Majesty, or something like that... also a term for a British, coined by the ever abbreviating Australians).. ah well, that's life for ya. blah blah blah and life goes on.

why such a sour pill this morning huh? is it because i've just come back to uni from a 4-day holiday, been shopping, snorkelling in Manly beach and just about done everything else that's left to do...? coming back to uni for a statistics quiz at 9 am in the morning and listening to some french guy talk about cell signalling and g-proteins and kinases and what not?

what a damper. i need a holiday desperately. and the next one in line is in july... that's 3 months away.

sheesh... i'm missing malaysia's public holidays... see..? don't take things for granted...
things like the numerous public holidays that we get in malaysia...

argh....

Korean steamboats are a rip-off.

The next time you hang out with your friends at some shopping mall, sit beside your partner-in-crime in class, or just eating at some crummy mamak stall (mmmm... mamak stall...*Salivating*...) with your buddies, take a good look at them and then start wondering what will happen to you guys in one year's time. think of where you'll be, what you guys would be doing, where you are...

it's funny how i never gave a thought to it, but life really does change at an enourmous pace. it goes so fast that right now, just right now la, i'm feeling a bit intimidated. everyone's going at such a tremendous speed and i don't think THEY even know it themselves... taking time off to smell the roses is a thing of the past. dead.

anyway, what i'm trying to say is that yesterday i met up with one of my college girlfriends for dinner.. Ms Teo Hong Yin, smarty-pants-got-99.55-for-SAM-and-was-still-complaining came down from ANU, Canberra for a shopping spree in Sydney. we had dinner at some korean steamboat restaurant which wasn't all that great and the food cost me 10 bucks which i could've spent on better food instead of steamboat. but, that's not the point.

the point is, after sitting down and actually tasting the super-duper thin slices of beef that we were supposed to dunk into the not-so-great soup, i realised how surreal the whole atmosphere was.... i mean, i would never NEVER imagine that i'd be sitting at some korean steamboat place which wasn't all that great in Chinatown, Sydney, having dinner with Teo Hong Yin. Sydney!! that's like, thousands of kilometers away from where we first met! i mean.. it's SYDNEY for crying out loud...

it just boggles my mind...if someone had come up to me last year and told me that i'd find myself sitting at some korean steamboat place which wasn't all that great with Teo Hong Yin in the heart of Chinatown, Sydney... i would've thought that the guy was bonkers. i mean, you'd react the same way too, wouldn't you?

ok, by now you should have gotten the hint that the korean steamboat place wasn't so good after all.. .. i want my 10 bucks back!

but, it was cool meeting up with her.. more than cool.. it was AWESOME! the next thing in store for the both of us is a roadtrip down to melbourne and then proceeding to adelaide... *cross fingers*

hey... miracles happen ok?

To hell with worms.. i just wanna sleep!

You know something? i never knew that playing truant was so fun. seriously...

Was coming home from uni yesterday and then i just said to myself...

"Heck i'm not gonna spend AUD4.40 and waste 2 hours of my time going to uni to listen to some dude talk about integrals in calculus which i've already done in form 5, waste 2 hours having some 'break' then hop into physics lecture 3 to learn about circular motion, my most hated subject... no way!"

ok. maybe it wasn't that long and articulate.. it was more like
"i'm not gonna go tuh uni tomorrow"...
hey! i was there since 7.30 in the morning and only got home at 5.. so you can forgive me if my brain was just too tired to bother being articulate.

anyways, YEA! there's a change in me! whoo hoo! that's what living away from home does to you..(?) i mean, don't laugh but throughout my whole 6 years of primary schooling, 5 years of secondary schooling, 1 year of SAM, i've never ponteng lessons... EVER. except for the times where i was sick, or had some family function, or had to attend the sports meets.. i've never deliberately ponteng my lessons.

diversion: i like the word ponteng.. don't you? i mean, truant sounds so..coarse.. ponteng sounds nicer... hmm.. yes... ponteng.

where was i? ah.. yes... everytime when my friends told me to walk out of school with them during lunch breaks, i'd be struck by this terrible sense of guilt and paranoia... serious. i'd just be completely rooted down and will make up some stupid excuse to run away from it... hahahaha... ask my friends, they have testimony of it.

but yea, now i do'nt think that ponteng-ing is so bad after all... well, it saves me money, saves me time and gives me extra sleep... (i slept till 10.30 today!! first time since reaching here..! *bliss*)

to hell with the early bird that caught the worm.. what's so great about worms when you can rise and see the sun shining in you window and then have a big bowl of cereals and a muesli bar.. (ok, maybe that didn't sound very nice, but hey, to each his own).. i've been waking up to dark cold wet mornings all this while... time for a change! waking up at 5.45 ain't nice, mind you.

Don't wake up at 5.45 in the morning!! it's insane! it's madness!!

Yowzers...

my mom just left Sydney for home... and the realization that i'll be completely at the mercies of my Ozzie relatives have begun dawning upon me.

Aaww.. i'm not whinging.

It's hard, though, you know? ok, maybe hard is not the right word to use in this circumstance. it's just weird... i don't know i'm guessing that weird is the best way to describe it. you know how when you have something with you all the time and i mean, ALL THE TIME and suddenly you don't have it anymore? it's like books for the librarian, computer games for david, mummy for me. it's just weird... when it's taken away from you... you're left with a feeling.. "hey!! what the...?" it's just weird...

ok, don't get me wrong here... i'm not a mummy-girl and i don't think i'll ever be. it's just that she's always been someone i could talk to, gossip with, crack stupid jokes at, insulting (but in a good way, mind you) each other... serious...we do it all the time and don't think that my mom's really innocent and good..she's not...sometimes.

so you see? it's weird when someone like that is not around. who am i gonna tell about that new cute looking guy i saw at geology lab? (that's just an example..DON'T taKE it For REaL!!) who's gonna pick up my room after i've strewn it with clothes? ok ok.. maybe the answer to that would be me... but you do get my point though, don't you?

ah well... 7 more months.. that's not too bad..actually come to think of it...that's really soon. NOW i guess overseas-uni-life-no-more-parents-independance will REALLY start to kick in...

Hopefully...

clubbing anyone?

=)