Greetings from Aussie!

Hey people! G'day! How are all of you back in Penang? it's really hot in pg right?

Shall  I show you how my room looks like? Hahaha
I'm currently enjoying myself coz the study workload is not here yet. STRESSfree for now but still got pimples, god knows why..ahaha! but i have my emo days too when first arrived!..

the first few days when i arrived in International House, i felt rather out of place coz i know NOBODY here. so i was living at my sister's place every night and i only went back to IH for lunch. the sense of belonging to IH wasn't there at all! everytime when i had to go back to IH, it was just miserable. i have to force myself to smile to unknown residents, the room looks old & horrible to me, i don't feel comfortable using the commmon bathroom, etc.. However I had yummy dinners throughout the whole week(thanks to mummy and daddy) and the visits to the city was something. okay the first week was not very fun and the week ended with a teary send off for my parents on Sunday night =(. it was really sad even the night before. i practically cried till i slept! yup, i'm a cry baby.

The next day( Monday 22 Feb), Orientation week activities started..still didn't know much people. Wen Zhen(my friend from Pg) came to visit me for a while and after that i was all alone to handle the whole socialising situation. so i started opening my mouth to say hi and asked people where they are from,etc..the week got better with lotza fun activities although i cried during some nights..i guessed it was just a normal thing that most people will experience when they leave their family and home for the first time.  this post is a lil' down but it is necessary to address this feeling of mine..i have to write the sad part first to share it with all of you coz i think this will be the first feeling that most of you will experience when you move into your uni life later!

However the fun part comes along after the sad part. my next post will all be about my IH orientation week packed with lotza fun,tiring, sweaty, wet activities Everyday!

 the pics are not taken very well..i will taking some nicer pics of my room again!

My Next Three Years

My next three years(from Feb 22nd 2010 onwards).....

will be all about studying in University of Queensland

will be all about meeting new international students from all over the globe

will be all about missing my close friends

will be all about being INDEPENDENT

will be all about going through all my late night revisions alone without mom staying up with me

will be all about missing my daddy and mommy while in a whole new environment

will be all about chatting with my parents using video call

 will be about missing the comfort of my HOME, my bed and everything else in my home

will be all about shooing away lizards(Can't even stand looking at them) without any help from daddy

Why am i making this so sad? being emo i guess...it's not like i'm goin to stay there without coming back every year, i will surely come back every year. So,gotta switch my emotions =)

From February 22nd 2010...

hopefully i will be able to cope with Economics

and better still-do well in it

hopefully i will develop a passion towards Econs

hopefully i will find some crazy and caring close friends

hopefully i will let myself be persuaded by last minute outings and join in the fun

hopefully i will be able to stand up for myslef and be less naive  

hopefully i will catch a big 'FISH'

(that's a bonus if it does happens =D, the fish doesn't literally means the fish we eat, it's the 'fish' Pn Lim Li Li always refers too...hahahaha! )

hopefully my many close friends in M'sia will still remain my close friends

(if u consider yourselves as one of my close friends, then you are one)

(do update me with all the happenings- bf's, gossips etc...)

hopefully i will control my spendings $$$ now that nobody will be nagging me about it

hopefully my good 'friend' the cicaks don't come face to face with me (DON't come and find me)

lastly,

hopefully i will love my program, UQ,  Aussie and the people there!

32@The Mansion restaurant

Location: 32, Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah, Penang, Malaysia  (Just type the name of the restaurant using Google Earth and you will get the location)

Went there for Mummy's Birthday last December. i thought we have to wear like super formal since the facade of the mansion look so expensive. but i was wrong. You don't have to.

very nice interior and ambience. love the place we had our dinner.

can't really remember the exact names of the dishes though

fresh bouquet of flowers at the centre of every table

House Special Salad

-fresh greens with a soury sauce has a combination of lemon, lemongrass and other herbs

 

Chicken cutlets seasoned and coated with cheese served with fettucine(or linguine?) and tomato sauce

Fish with some kind of creamy sauce and pine nuts

BBQ Chicken and duck on sticks. the duck was not really cooked, don't really like it.

hot chocolate brownie cake with vanilla ice-cream topped with almond flakes

Freshly baked apple pie with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream

the side entrance

Other dishes not displayed:

Crab Bisque:

a very creamy soup with a very 'crabby' taste. suitable for those who love the very dense crab taste. very easily "jelak". The Wild Creamy Mushroom Soup suits most people.

Garlic Bread:

One of the nicest I've tasted so far

Mom's Codfish & Mussels with a type of sauce ( from the Chef's Recommendations Menu):

taste better than the fish with pine nuts

Homemade Brown sugar Ice-cream with coconut sauce:

Quite a refreshing dessert and it's the cheapest in the desserts section  =)

taste of all dishes was okay, not very very yummy. however i need to compliment on the presentation of the dishes(after all, it's fine dining mah) and the whole dining atmosphere.

First post in 2010

I was supposed to write about my New Year resolution for 2010 on 1st Jan 2010 but this blogger has been really lazy..to be honest, i don't have a particular new year resolution, just go on with the flow. i do not have plans for eg need to achieve this and that, have to buy this and that...that is why i am who i am today, a BORING person..hahahaha!

However this year i do hope i will meet good, fun and caring friends when i go over to Brisbane in February though i know it will not be an easy task(since i only have average social skills) Also, i wish i will be able to cope with all the new Econs concepts (keeping my fingers crossed =p) occasionally i still fear that i will hate the course la, haiyo, i shouldn't be thinking this way liao.

Time has been flying by for me this holidays. sleep late and wake up late.almost every week go QB. Waking up at 10.30 every morning and sleeping at 1 something really made my bodies system go cuckoo. i have one big acne now which is taking years to go away and my menstrual cycle is disrupted..ergh, HATE it! =(  so starting from this week, i have been improving my sleeping habit. sleeping at 12 midnight and wake up at 9am. this is the reason why i offline from Msn earlier than the time i used to in the past. =) I'm just hoping i can stick to this habit for long. 

i will show you guys more on food in the next few post. no mood to write emotional stuff.

Song of the day: 說謊 - 林宥嘉  (Shua Huang by Lin You Jia)


note that I'm using various colours for the first post of the year so that it would not look dull as i wish 2010 will be a colourful year for me as well !!!

Last Day of 2009

Recap of the year..
erm not much happenings this year
1. experienced a new studying environment in college
2. meeting friends from a lot wider backgrounds
3. my SPM achievements
4. learnt to drive 
5. had my first car mishap
6. scary and time-consuming assignments and essays
7. outings with close friends since all of us are no longer in the same school
8. first time "ponteng" class for starbucks free coffee
9. took lots of pictures in college =) 
10. first time being taught by 'ang mohs' in IELTS classes.
see, i told you this year has been a so-so year for me only..

Of course there are some other tiny ups and downs momentsi've gone through me but i can't really recall them them already.. so friends, if you can recall any other memorable events we had together, please do inform me about it.

It's New Year's eve! Mone asked me to go for countdown party and hotel stayover but Dad won't allow coz he said things can go rowdy and uncontrolled..so what can i do for new year's eve?? stay at home and watch countdown concert on tvbs =)

Happy New Year to everyone! 
May you have a great year 2010 ahead of you!!

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tracia's redbox party and winter warmers

Tracia invited us to her early birthday at Redbox yesterday, so me fetched Kp and Simone. we were so late that tracia called us to aask where we were. simone answered the call for me and said in hokkien "lang eh Michelle driving la, ka ban" yaya, compared to mone i drive super slow =) kp said " lang pui('fei' in mandarin) tiao ki liao" LOL so funny wei...

reached there at 4.20 lidat coz i took some time finding for a parking lot and to do the reverse parking, with the expert ms Simone giving me advise "Look at your side, turn your steering to the left, nono, to the right, press the acceleratorm etc.."

so we went into our room at 5.30 coz we're waiting for Florence. go in for a while, the waiter came in and asked us to move to another room. all of us, each with our glasses walked to another room. the whole scenario was as if we were trying to escape from the cops in a nightclub*exaggerating*
moved into a much bigger room and started singing, it was kinda fun since we have not been to redbox for quite some time.

At around 8pm, the 4 of us(me, mone, kp, flo) went for dinner at Winter Warmers. the music was so loud and we started lip synced along with the music with mone taking a video of us. makan makan then we went to  gHotel to pee. me and kp were pulling the other two of them there cos' they're scared they might be shooed away by the guards. went to the ladies and started vaining inside. kp and mone are having all the pictures but belum upload yet. 

left Gurney at 10pm and it was so jammed right from the multi-storey carpark. kp n mone taught me how to cut queue. so here's a tip that mone gave me: Raise your hand as a gesture to ask permission from the driver of the lane you wish to go into and he will let u do it! it really WORKS =P

Chit chat the whole way back. dropped mone first at greenlane heights and should've headed back to greenlane but we(kp n i) got lost on our way back. we really have very POOR sense of direction man! we drove till the road to farlim then later have to made a U-turn at the batu lanchang skol punya entrance. oh boy...

~the END~

Iced peach tea from Winter Warmers. it was quite sweet and refreshing.

no pictures of our main dishes coz' it wasn't really good

P.S. people remember the lady Gaga's song? Mum Mum mum Mah..P-P-P-Poker face...

I HAD FUN YESTERDAY =)

back to INTI with my two carpooling buddies

Today was the first time after our HSC exams that Kp, Ange and myself went back to Inti together. fetched the two of them at about 7.50am. three of us shared stories during the whole journey to Inti. We brought our textbooks to college for the secondhand book sale, very bad response. kar pei and ange, we shouldn't have gone so early.. then fetched them home like what i used to do. Ange said something like that, " ahyo i missed college lar, the wednesday eat-outs etc but not the studying part la." Totally agree with you =)

i knew about the sale the night before, so i packed my books till 2am yesterday and woke up 6.35 this morning! that's very early okay...
i was rather reluctant to sell my books and notes away coz a lot of effort has been put into doing the notes.
hence, i took some pictures of all my post-it(it's called 'bian li die' in mandarin..haha) that i removed from my books and some other pictures

all these came from my BS, physics and chem textbooks as i used to write the questions i wished to ask and stick them on the books

all the additional analysis that Ms Kam shared with us... Oxymoron, paradox, antithesis, metonymy..still remember the terms, HSC people? =)