Tuesday, July 14, 2009

all in a days work

you know its a one of those not-so-good-day to work when
  • u woke up late today
  • ur phone battery died
  • it rained heavily when u walked to work
  • at work, thing that are not suppose to break broke
  • not once.. but twice!!
  • u curse out loud..
  • u spend extra 1 hour to repair the broken bits
  • u were shivering the whole time in the workplace
  • your measurements went way off what it suppose to be
  • u spend 3 and a half hours just to do a 2 hour job
  • u know the final product you made is not your best
  • u wanted the day to end earlier
  • ur fingers went numb till u cant feel anything
  • u dont want to leave the house once u reach home
  • u do the safest thing.. by doing nothing
  • at the end of the day.. u just want to sleep.. and start the new day hoping for better

all in a days work eh??

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

snowman

small note: don't you think Vincristine is a nice name for a girl for a couple of vincent and christine??

i just cant stop myself posting this picture over here....... just can't.....

who say's they can't make a snow man in Adelaide??
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*frosty the snow man~~*
dont you think is cute???
[signs of exam period.....]

Monday, June 15, 2009

the orange

is

  • having a strong love hate relationship with facebook. and the ability to access facebook from his mobile makes this relationship worst
  • temporary divorcing his brand new 3 month old 'wife'
  • proposing marriage to a yellow and orange highlighter
  • got a crush on coffee again
  • thinks his lecture slides looks pretty with yellow and orange strides across
  • planing his honeymoon with his highlighters in the uni library
  • making Rang & Dale talk to Brock

other than that... the walking orange also

  • almost lost his finger nail..... again
  • just found out his brand new shoes has worn out.. there is a hole in the sole!!! n i just started wearing that shoe just 4 months ago!!!! *sigh* maybe i should not walk anymore... a wheelchair will do =)
  • has been eating non stop for some unknown reasons... yet somehow still weights erm... 54.6 kg light..
  • been hiding from his contact list....
  • wonders why cold air goes down and heat goes up..
  • wants a ever lasting constant temperature coffee mug.. (drinks get cold too quickly in winter... =/)
  • don't really want the holidays to come...... =/
  • still cant remember his exact exam dates.....
  • wonders if he should return 'tag' on the fb note.. and also the tag from another blog.... hmmm

all the best in your exam mates ^^

Thursday, June 4, 2009

the orange

gosh... its that time of the year again where everyone is going "how's ur exams preperation going" than the normal "how are you?? " to start a conversation. in another 18 days, we will be having our 1st paper of the 2nd year as a podiatry student. and when exam comes, its the time where drinking coffee to stay awake and not sleep is forgiven ^^

its been a long while since i last updated this site. previous post was in april, and now its already june. i have a few post typed in draff, yet i didn post it up due to my own reasons, this site isn't as close as before a few years back where i basically rant everything and anything out over here. now... lets just say life is getting more complicated where i rather spend more time in trying to uncomplicate things than ranting everything out and hope it goes uncomplicated by itself.

recent updates on uni will be, been seeing patients, and so far 1st few clinical sessions went pretty well *i think* all the people i seen still have their 10 toes with them and non of them came back in with toes dropping off their feet yet.. *fingers cross*. as usual, this year being balancing work, studies and social life again. given previous experiences, i manage to balance out my time more better now.. saying more 'no' than 'yes' and erm.. basically isolating myself from time to time. big thanks to the gang that help me through the weeks where im rushing tru the assignments while the need to complete the notice board. i will be dead if u guys didn help me with that.

sometimes people wonder why i work every week, while actually i could just finish uni without working any part time jobs. well, given the current working hours and amount, basically i could self support my meals, and bills which is something i'm pretty proud of myself. of course as a student, especially in uni, failing isn't an option plus, now i have stuff that makes failing a horrible nightmare, anyway, the most happiest thing of all, i could get the things i like myself. recent buying that made me pretty sad, yet happy will be my new dell laptop.

i do wonder sometimes, how the local students do it. initially, i thought because they are staying with their family, they could manage their time better, since they dont have to cook and do house chores, but after knowing a friend of mine that basically self-support and study together, (she basically pays eveyrthing herself.. rent, bills, food etc. etc.) i started to wonder.. how can she do it?? as a student from malaysia, studing and working at the same time isn't our culture at all. we tend to concentrate on studying, and ENJOYING Uni life before starting to work. i do understand that mindset since i was brought up in malaysia to start with. yet sometimes i do get disappointed when people thinsk that its my lost as i cant spend time ENJOYING uni life as i got work to do. i'll get back to this topic after my exams.. holidays are really the best time to work!!! =P and yesh.. im planing to do so.. so dont stop me.

oh and yes, im going back home, sandakan, malaysia this coming summer break!! will be a short trip given i've been away from malaysia for 1 year plus now. funny, i realise i'm not a home sick person, but i make a new home everywhere i go.. =x wonder if this is a good thing?? haha.. and of course i like to go back and enjoy food n stuff back home, but i dont really mind staying back here not going back for the summer break too. is this normal?? neway.. im heading home in febuary next year.. till march.

anyway, off to class now.
(orange signing off)

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

the orange

its almost a quarter of the year gone, and im currently feeling pretty drain already. given there is 3 more quarters to go, i wonder how this year will end. i might be as dried as the salted fishes they sell back in malaysia. hahaha

anyway, currently having my mid term break. the planned relaxing break isn't happening as usual. my plans are never successful anyway. but, im just relaxing as much as possible to face the 2nd half of the year. i wonder the reason of being in adelaide for too long contributed to the feeling of being drained. maybe i should take a real holiday... physically, the body is fit and ready to go. yet mentally, its pretty much running at full speed. things just keep turning and churning and running over and over in the head. i wonder if that's what a computer feels every time its being switch on. if that's so, being a computer pretty much sucks...

i wonder if we have a button or a spot on our body where, once activated, we could go into a shutdown mode. worry free, not needed to think about. and all. is not that things are bad here.. things are actually better than i expected. but little things when added up kinda makes a whole lot of bad stuff. oh well, will just take down one by one right?? or maybe 2 together... after all im pretty much able to handle it i guess..

its hard to understand people sometimes. sometimes, when u think u understand someone, but the truth is that will never happen. i once told my friend, 'i have lost the touch to understand people..' the thing my friend replied was, 'maybe is not you.. maybe is just people getting harder to understand'. it made me thinking is it true as we grow older, life gets more and more complicated? or is it true that things just get complicated because its meant to be complicated?

people tell me im a fast person. i walk fast, i can work fast, type fast, and also think fast. i been walking fast till sometimes i wonder if that's the reason im not gaining weight. anyway, is being fast that good? is maximizing time really that important compare to being slower?? do you really get a better result if u do something slower but u put less heart in it?? do you 'think-too-much" when you think fast?? do your neurons over fire making you go 'if this, if that, if, if, and more if's?? does being fast really kills??

there are so many unanswered questions running in the brain now.. what, how, why, who, this and that, some are pretty lame and unimportant, and some are things that i should be thinking about. yet, this questions will remain unanswered for the time being. and when the time comes, im sure that these questions will be answered.

for those that reads this and think im in a deep mess, don't worry, im just pretty much as usual.. after all, there are always ups and downs in life right?? there are so many things that i really want now. but the thing that i really need is to slow my brain down. just a little will be good.

p/s: i need some happy post soon.... hmmmmm

Friday, April 10, 2009

cafe~

walking through the door, the aroma of the shop feels the atmosphere, the sound of milk being froth feels the air, soft conversations feels the ear and a welcome smile from the barista welcomes. his graceful movements in making drinks is well known throughout the street.

"one regular latte please" he said. looking into the shop, he spotted a glowing smile sitting at the back corner, everything else dissolve into the background. he smiled back, collecting his warm latte he walks steadily to the glow. he sat, right in front of the glow, ignoring everything else, with a bright smile in front of him, he asked, "how are you today dear??" she answered cheerfully, "i'm good. how was work today?"....


further down the shop, a lady, well dressed sitting alone. her face shows loneliness, and her wrinkled face shows aged. her frail hands pick up the mug of cappuccino bringing it closer to her mouth. the froth covers her lips, and she smiled lightly, giving sense of joy. gently with the other thin looking hand, she wipes off her lips and wonders back to her long deep thoughts. her surrounding dissolves instantly, with her long stare into the mug. she remembered the times when she brought her daughter with her into the shop, sitting at the exact same table, enjoying a cup of hot chocolate. but with work and family taking over her daughter's life, that's left a memory and a dream.


on the next table, a man, in the forties, quickly sat down, putting his bag next to him and lay his cup of long black on the table next to his newspaper. without looking he grab a brown paper packet, tear it and pour the contend into the cup. stirring it with his left, and flipping with his right, with such skills that as if he was doing it for years. the baristar brought his choc chip muffin and put it down for him. after glancing through the headlines, he put his paper aside, and cuts the muffin and place them into his mouth, he looks out of the window of the shop, with a focused face, he continues with his meal.


the cold autumn weather, brought a couple in, cuddling in the corner, whispering to each other, with a cup of mocha in between their hands, with a right hand stretch across her shoulder, and hers on his lap, they chatted away. not bothering stares from others. with little chuckles from time to time. sipping from the mug, seems like the most happiest thing to do there. the sweetness feeling of their conversation is spreading, and every time the barista look at them, he smiled, remembering the times he met his wife, many many years ago.

as the sun goes to rest, and the sky turn yellow, they slowly left the shop, leaving the barista alone. he quickly cleans up, sweep the floor, and close the cashier. leaving the shop and heads home, with his heart, contended.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

1200 AUD

100 hours of work in the kitchen (ave 12 AUD per hour) +
100 hours of work in the with the grinders (12 AUD per hour)
= 1200 AUD

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1200 AUD =

1090 days of advertiser newspaper (1.10 AUD each)
869 metro bus trips (1.35 AUD each)
674 bags of potato chips (1.78 AUD each)
603 loafs of bread (1.99 AUD each)
521 tempura chicken sushi rolls (2.30 AUD each)
342 bags of chips (3.50 AUD each)
303 cups of regular latte (3.95 AUD each)
266 cups of bubble tea (4.50 AUD each)
242 cups of regular irish nut creme (4.95 AUD each)
240 cheese burger regular meal at hungry jacks (aprox 5 AUD each)
151 family size australian pizza special (7.90 AUD each)
150 1 foot long subway sandwich (aprox 8 AUD each)
133 movies at the cinema (9 AUD per ticket)
80 meals outside at a nice restaurant (ave 15 AUD each)
64 3D movies trip at imax cinema (18.5 AUD per ticket)
60 tee shirts (ave 20 AUD each)
12 1kg lindt chocolate bunnies (100 AUD each)
10 3kg cocolat easter chocolate egg (120 AUD each)
4 new digital camerars (250 AUD each)
1 trip back home without budget airline (~aprox 1200 AUD 2 way ticket)


wish list = frozen
holiday plans = frozen
volunteer plans = pending
work plans = pending...

*sigh*
*takes knive n stabs heart*
i will survive.....