today

it’s not very often that i can actually sit right in front of the computer with the sole purpose of blogging as it has become few of the last thing to do in my list nowadays. it’s not the thing i will do with kengwei around. he’s such a cheerful housemate, with noise. haha

but this silence brings me back and i guess i just succumb to the loneliness now. but the feeling is good. the freshness of air after rain, invigorating. the company of apple juice, chilling.

it wasn’t like that couple of hours ago. darryl was here as the guest of the day. woke up with someone there playing dota, as if beckoning me to join him even though i wasn’t fully awake. but of course i would join even without invitation. had several nice matches that we forced people to leave games, as usual =D afternoon, darryl wasn’t feeling well, taking the absence of congee at nearby restaurants as reason, we headed city for lunch before he went back. but the company dissipated as soon as he walked away from me.

at that moment of time, i was thinking if i could follow darryl back to his home and attend church tomorrow? haven’t been to there for ages already. but that request didn’t get initiated. if only i could bring along my laptop. so on the street resonated with the chatters of thousands people, i shielded myself against the noise and walked back to my house. and then call it a day.

tomorrow will be a busy day. have to get everything sorted out well tomorrow, hopefully.

hmm, now that i feel weird that the excitement didn’t surge along the completion of my last exam paper. i gotta feeling playing behind is obviously futile. i think i know why. anyway, off to bed now. good night.

p.s i almost forget that blogging is as easy as this. it had been a while now. people, i’m back to blogging. for the moment =)

recently

最近挫折多。怎么会。怎么好。

p.s Joey 司徒壁。

p.p.s 不可以翻译给他。

adelaide

i went adelaide last week. unlike melbourne city, that place actually gave me a peaceful and quiet town image, which is very much like kuala terengganu. no high rise buildings, no huge shopping malls. but those undulating landscapes and breathtaking sceneries are everything we need for a runway from melbourne.

i can’t put the whole trip into words here because i can hardly recall what i had been doing since first day. and also i’ve never got a itinerary. lol. close to my heart, i know that i enjoy the whole trip though. with companions around, i will never relate the trip with boredom.

i was brought to many places. as much as i enjoy exploring places in adelaide, szeyin’s kaki-kaki mahjong definitely did add some sparks in my trip. i met some people there and had a bit more understanding towards their drinking and mahjong culture.

also, i was surprised when elisa actually planned the itinerary for us and kept reminding us to confirm our route ahead each day because most of the places we went are no where close to the city hence we do need a careful planning and best with a gps. but what szeyin did was a map made with several lines. very yeng ar, like me. who needs gps when the driver herself has such awesome built in navigation system. lol

as i said before adeliade is a wonderful place to escape to and words can anymore express how i wanted to embrace everything there. so, i decided to show it with action. 

oh adelaide, you remind me of terengganu.

adelaide actually looks nicer than those shots. the sole problem is my camera because the photos i took always differ from what i observed with my eyes. so, just try to imagine adelaide is maybe 5 times nicer than those you see.

lastly. thank you. i love you. it was so fun hanging out with you.

that’s pretty much i want to tell about the trip.

p.s we are not couple. i am lucky to survive through the days that her bf didn’t slaughter and chop me and feed those pieces to penguin. =)

450ml

Below is the blood donator’s card i received once i registered to be blood donor last year. very much like the card in japan or throughout the world, the card serves as our blood identification card that could avoid all the hassles the next time you donate blood.

i can still recall the time when i donated my blood. i hopped into the centre with a friend and volunteered to do something for the needy. the moment when i went in there, i saw a really long queue to the door and i found amazing that the love is still full of love because that day was not a special blood donation day that people just join the crowd to donate blood. in fact, that was a fine boring weekday.

and of course me being a foreigner, the staffs in the centre responded meticulously by carefully obtaining every single detail that might potentially diagnose an infection or bacteria or virus in my blood. but they were so regret of their thoughts because the result turned out to be perfectly perfect and the all indexes indicates that my blood is the blood that they have been always looking for. i could see that from their eyes.

so, to support my statement above, they decided to go against the norm where they took 450ml instead of going according my weight’s allowance, which is 400ml, which is also 50ml more than chai ei. that’s was cunning of them. also, they even persuaded me to join their frequent blood donor club by giving me the card in advance and arranged an appointment for me during my last birthday. so called to contribute something meaningful during my birthday.

unlike the cute nurse chai ei got in japan, the staff helpig me was an old middle aged lady, with a really stern look but soft and kind inside. i noticed that from her angelic smile when she walked away from me, trust me, so angelic that you can never imagine. i do prefer a cute japanese nurse to chit chat and share a lot information with me though. after that, my blood started to ooze into blood package and the process was another ordinary boring process which took maybe 6-7 minutes because i remember i watched 2 channel v songs. i’m not really sure.

and another thing i must mention is that the nurse there were really responsible and caring enough that they gave me a list of numbers and addresses to contact just in case i got sick and uncomfortable after donating my blood. a thing that i couldn’t experience when i donated my blood in malaysia. tsk tsk tsk. however, i was not to heong like chai ei that he went to a long distance run right after his donation. hebat betul engkau.

p.s. this is a response post to chaiei’s 400ml.

p.p.s. the 450ml part is totally my imagination but my precious blood and indexes part are true.

p.p.p.s. i just finished my exam and i am very happy.

post-assignment

hi! i am writing this because i just handed in two major assignments of this semester. i feel so good now.

the two assignments are the poster which i had been working for the past ten freaking days. not exactly throughout the 10 days, because i had another assignment which weight less but still a lot. the past 10 days, i think no words can describe how torturing it was. you can only attest it by yourself because no matter how people describe it to you, it somehow sounds exaggerating. anyhow, i screwed the another assignment. i disappointed my tutor i think. she expected something from me she said before and that motivated me so much that i kept cracking my mind to impress her. but now, tsk tsk tsk.

so, can i show you the poster. because i have no other photos to upload recently. of course i can. lol

another assignment and then exams and then holiday. holiday again!

errr

sorry but i ‘ve used all my free time on bed. hence, no blogging. this is the tenth week and it is so intense that i could hardly have time to even *pause* i have no idea what i want to do now. all i have in my mind is to finish this assignment by friday.

anyway, a picture i found online yesterday on architorture.com. entitled studio emotions. lol.

p.s. i will have a proper post. really soon. cool? cool!

kid

in architecture, we’re often assigned to particular site to provide a context for further engagement in our design. it’s always good to apply architecture in real world practice but what bothers us most is that these sites are normally, unless the lecturers gone crazy, just green flat ground with beautiful landscape occasionally as an extra. it actually depends on the way you view this thing, some people might comment that the site has no characteristic, thus limiting its potential, as opposed to the site being a white canvas which will be later filled with all your creativity.

so one day during studio class, this guy, confident and wild looking guy, started his presentation by discussing his site analysis with decent maps. people were confused then as nobody seemed to be familiar with the maps shown on screen because he was talking about a site totally different from everyone else’s. however, he continued to talk in depth about his design leaving people puzzled behind. and it’s pretty much a manners that when we don’t interrupt speaker while he/she’s talking.

at the end of his presentation, upon requested to justify the rationale for deciding on another site, his reply was “simply because i don’t fancy the given site.” now, this is what we call kid too cool for school.

i’ve no idea what happened to him later but he certainly won some applause there. just to deliver the message of that even not conforming assignment requirements, thing could be trickily, as should i say, smartly done. rule? isn’t it meant to be broken?

easter break

i have heaps of assignments during easter break. currently working on plan drawing, architecture history researches, and map making. guess you can imagine how intensive is my semester. at the same time i think i’ve been resting quite well with the sun shines upon my eyes to wake me up every morning. i simply adore this kind of lifestyle. that’s alright for the time being. this explains my infinite love to holiday. sleeping is my hobby. my hobby is sleeping. i am looking forward to year end summer break. lol.

p.s i know this post is pointless. forgive me please. =)

hi jei

first of all, the dormant status of this blog is due to my really unbelievably intense architecture workloads. no joke, but i could hardly know any girls in this fabulous market of melbourne university if this is not going to end any time soon, especially those from faculty of music. haha

and the second thing is that, i know i should not talk anymore about my birthday which has already been a month from then, but i received a present from jei pong like 10 days ago. i sacrifice my research on foundation of architecture to write this now*. i really appreciate that especially that is from someone i least expected. by that, i mean jei currently staying 329482938 miles away from me, it would be just fine if i just got a birthday wish from him. instead of doing that, he went extra miles to give a me architecture calendar. see, how can i not love you le jei?

see, our national pride, klia airport is in the first page of the calendar. it’s not just about your sincerity alone that drives me to write this post, also because of the quality of the present. but you probably don’t know this, because it was still unwrapped when it reached me. this calendar has taught me heaps. for example,

dutch language, for me when i first read, they were really similar to cantonese pronunciations. in dutch, their days of the week are called, starting from sunday, zondag(zong dak), maandag(emm dak), dinsdag(dim dak), woendag(ngo em dak), donderdag(ah dong dak dak) ,vrijdag(which dak), zaterdag(za dak dak). say funny please.

nonetheless, when i was about to throw the envelope that fetch this calender here to aussie, i discovered something.

it’s a strand of hair and after some very scientific analyse, which i haven’t been practising for so long already, on the hair, based of the shaggy type plus a bit curl and judging by jei’s current hairstyle and the hairs’ length, i think it is yours jei. is it accidentally attached there or it is bonus for my birthday?

昨夜

昨天晚上，和朋友聚餐。很开心，喝了点酒。

回到了房间，头有点昏，便洗澡去了。

水洒在头上，启蒙了生锈的脑。

人生到了二十一，一直以来的坚持是对的吗？

这几年认识的不同的人，看到的也不少。

但对于目标，事业，朋友，爱情，金钱，都坚持着。

但是我对吗？若是，对的相反，一定是错吗？

喝酒的昨晚我很清醒。今天的我却又想不通。