Hard work paid off?

got back all my mid-semester results. they're all rather satisfactory. however, due to my kiasu-ism(or to put it in a nice way, to know where's my standard), i always compare my marks with my other coursemates. they got higher than me.

sometimes it seems unfair why a person who puts in less effort than i did got a higher mark than me..
here's one example:

she parties quite a lot, does a lot of last minute studying, seldom attends lectures, reads only the lecture notes while i did my tutorials weekly, attend lectures almost every other week, read my textbook chapters but she got a higher mark than me.

one more:

i read my textbook, make notes, attend lectures&tutorials..she did about the same thing(not the textbook part though), she kept on saying she doesn't like this subject, but ended up getting a higher mark than me.

so here's one advice that my friend gave me to make me feel better.
If you work hard, it doesn't mean you'll achieve excellent results but if you don't work hard, you'll definitely not be able to get excellent results. the point being made here is AT LEAST YOU'VE TRIED.

and i dislike comments by people like "you genius", "ahya, you don't have to be afraid of the results wanla, cos you always do so well" and when the results are good, they say "see, you guys surely get good results wan" and if results are bad, they have nothing to say already. what the heck man?! just by labelling us "genuis", all the effort we put in to achieve the results are forgotten? you don't know how much time we spent studying in order to get good results and all that we get is "ahya, u so clever,sure can wan la." i guess all these comments don't mean any harm, it's just me who is overly sensitive =).

p.s. i do use such comments at times too, but I'm trying hard not to use it because i personally think that it's rather insensitive to give such comments.

Riverfire festival

this post is way outdated.

Riverfire is one of the few big events in Brisbane. Basically it's an annual 30mins show of fireworks along the Brisbane River. went there after my first mid sem exam.

this is one of the few days in which you can see Brisbane packed with people.

all of us bought sushi rolls from the city before walking to Southbank

fireworks would only start at 7.30pm.
 it was only 5pm when we reached, so took lots of pictures.

the fireworks were much nicer than the photo. thanks to my lousy camera.

everyone smiles!!!

dinner at Madtongsan.it has been so long since we last dine in the city. we were are super 'kiam siap'
this is spicy pork hot stone rice.
the first time when i had this, it was really good but somehow it wasn't that great this time.

spicy seafood soup. this is always yummy, love the silky smooth tofu in it.

that's all for now. more food pictures to come.... going clubbing later, hahaha. guess i deserve to go this time cos it's like post-exam celebration =) and  no, i don't drink. entrance is free, so i will only spend on the bus ticket which is less than $4. I'm a good girl =)

I'm gonna have 3 mid semester exams next week..GG @.@ tuesday, wednesday and saturday

financial management with all the confusing annuity, time period

tools of economic analysis filled with my 'beloved' head-spinning mathematical stuff, Gaussian elimination, blah blah

statistics B with all the Chi-square, multi regression and the Mann-whitnay, kruskal wallis, non-parametric tests

and the worst thing is i'm still watching youtube every now plus my addiction to FB is incurable now!!

Malaysia's Independence day

so tmr is Merdeka day, public holiday in Malaysia =) bet most of you will be using this day sleeping till 12noon ( i'll be doing that if i'm back home)

i'm not really a patriotic person so why am i even writing this post?! well, i have to voice out my opinion about something related to Hari Merdeka.

i have friends in Fb writing stuff like " sang Negaraku in adelaide, fell proud but sad" and "let's sing our national anthem together tmr"

And guess what they get for their replies? "why so patriotic? if you're so patriotic, you'll be studying in malaysia and not aussie." and "are you f***ing serious? scr*** malaysia."

i really don't understand why they need to make such mean comments. if you hate malaysia so much, that's your problem. Just shut your damn mouth or migrate to other country. you don't have to stop others from expressing their love for their country.

For me, malaysia has been a place where i had a memorable childhood and great high school years. nothing much to worry about. so, i really 'pandang rendah" on all those people, they make these comments without having the thought that malaysia has actually provided them with a safe and happy place to live for so many years already.

i guess people make such comments because they are associating it with the politics in malaysia.( as in they hate all the orang besar in malaysia's political world)

malaysia is really a nice country with all it's places of attractions ( the islands, highlands..) and rich culture. it would be a great place to live in if there is less corruption( which means we need a clean fresh government), more environmental-friendly( government policy and malaysian's mind set), and lower crime rate( again this depends on the government).

Malaysia is still where my HOME is......


to those who are reading this post, i hope you are not one the brainless people who makes the nasty comments.

malaysian food for you: my favourite roti canai!!

and roti tisu

my personal favourites are the ones from Goodall Food court in Penang

(opposite PCGHS high school)

the roti canai is so so yummy and the roti tisu with banana slices is SUPERB.

i will take a photo of it when i go back to penang and post it up!

my two favourite snacks

STRAWBERRIES AND WERTHER'S ORIGINAL CANDY!

it's the season for strawberries in Aussie now and Coles is selling 2 boxes for $5. it's quite cheap so i bought it for myself. i can finish the whole box in a day =)
tried taking some pics of the strawberries with my sony camera.

i love this picture for no reason.
so succulent! in fact the big fat mutated ones are the good ones. not the nice well-shaped ones

yummy!

i've been eating this back in malaysian but starting to fall in love with it like two weeks ago.
oh, my black lappie makes a nice contrasting background for this pic =)

melbourne part TWO

as we have finished walking all around the city on the 2nd day, we decided to go to the suburbs. so bought the $6.80 daily ticket and off we went to Brighton beach.

reminds me of the poem "the road not taken" from high school

Brighton Bathing boxes
the whole stretch of colourful huts

a closer look at the nice huts, there are like more than 70 huts all together 

JUMP SHOTS!  you don't need a DSLR to capture these, just perfect timing

my canon digital camera(rm699, the lowest range) did it =D

I took this! so proud of myself hahaha!

had this toasted Turkish bread with ham and tasty cheese at the nearby cafe

went to St kilda after that...

Luna Park
it's theme park
we went in to have a look only, so it's FREE

there was a street in St Kilda which has quite a number of cake shops

i'm like "it looks so yummy!" but didn't try any cos we too "kiam siap" d

only had these. shared by 3, $2.50 each. i love latte art

Monarch Cakes

http://www.monarchcakes.com.au/

Mediacorp artistes, Christopher Lee and Cynthia had a filming session in that cafe before

Met up with fay's friends who are studying in Monash Uni.had dinner at a korean restaurant(so called famous among the students). so so. MadTongsan in Brisbane tastes much better, i think the one i had in Penang is better,so didn't bother to out up the pics.

the last day: took the free city circle tram to Docklands

had sushi rolls for lunch before taking the flight back.
you'll be able to see many sushi shops in every corner of melbourne

tonnes of pics on FB.
our one silly act in Melbourne: we left our hotel room key outside one night, forgotten to take it in. then as we were chatting at night, someone knocked on our door, we were so scared to open the door(my heart was pumping so FAST). the next morning, couldn't find the key. so i suddenly remembered "maybe yesterday the person was kind to remind us bout our key but we didn't open the door" went to the lobby, the key was with them! how KIND of that person. one good point of aussies. =)

BYE BYE MELBOURNE!
 this metropolitan city indeed offers alot of Asian cuisines but as i have said,we were too kiam siap to eat all those yummy food. imagine, if i were to come with my family, i will definitely spend a bomb on food with my dad who loves to eat!

thinking too much?

I have been thinking alot
about friendship and things along those lines..
people i can trust.
friends whom i'm sure will be around for me when i need them
i feel like i give more than i get.
ahh, i don't know how to explain further.
sometimes i just join in cos' i don't want to be left out
why am i so prone to follow the crowd?
where is 'ME'?
guess i'm just being over sensitive,
guess i'm expecting too much from my friendships with them...

I gotta learn to be strong
learn not to depend too much on others
start to think of their goodness instead of their flaws
should i just make "to give more than to get" as my life philosophy?
but if i were to do so, then i would be taken advantage of.
AHHH!
we'll just see how things progress