Friday, March 28, 2008
Easter break is ....................................coming to an end..boohoo.
Its funny why each universities in every state of Aus has different dates of holidays..or shall i say Deakin Uni is abit stingy with inter-sem break..like for this Easter break/mid-term break we only have a week of hols, whereas the unis in Adelaide has two weeks break this coming 14th of April...
Besides, we have to go back to uni during Labour day.. = . =" (so what is labour day to the uni staff?)
Oh well..no point complaining.
Spend Easter over at my cousin's house in Melbourne..last weekend. Explored melbourne city with my friends on saturday and sunday, although most of the shops were closed but the city is still as busy as ever. The Asian population in Melbourne is quite large, so u tend to feel more homely..seeing more of your kind. plus u dont have to worry much about food, cuz there are lots of asian food restaurants around the corner!~~
We went to this Malaysian own restaurant on sunday to have lunch since two of my friends are muslims. We were the first customer, took our order and waited. More people were dining in and we continued to wait.........for like 3 hours and there comes my 'char kuey teow' !!!!
Those customers who came after us, ate and left before we do. Apparently there was only 1 cook....! One of my friends said he probably took the entire time preparing the ingredients or probably went to the market to get some fresh meat/poultry. Not worth waiting as the entire afternoon was wasted and everyone was starving. At least the Tom Yum soup was complimentary after the long wait. That would be the very first and the very last time i dine in there.
Made sushi for my relatives on monday! Hahaha which was great fun!~ Skill of rolling the sushi is improving..nyehehehe.
Went back to Geelong on tues, my relatives were forcing me to stay another night but i decided to head back to Geelong to sort out some of my stuff..one of them..completing my assignments..which is only half completed at the moment and heaps of readings to do!! Ahhhh!
Today i went to the post office to apply for my 'children check' ( cuz in the future i might deal with children therefore its better to apply for a pass). I arrived at the main post office in the city which is like 20-25mins walk frm my house. After handing in the form, the person who attended to me said that i need to show him my actual passport for identification, photocopy is not acceptable...arghhhh...
so i have to walk back home to get my passport, although i was dreading to walk another 25mins back through and flow....i decided to head to the uni library first to finish up part of my assignments.
I sorted out everything in the afternoon and went back to uni again to meet up with my friends. On the way to the uni, i was walking across the road and on my right hand side..the traffic light was green and a few cars was passing by, suddenly this person threw out something from the car. I thought it was a cigarrette, when i look at it there was smoke coming out and it looks like a straw orange in colour bout 6cm. At that point, i had a feeling that it was goin to explode! true enough it did, right in front of me...my reflex system was not fast enough to ask my leg muscles to stop and turn back....i just moved forward! The blast sounded like an ordinary fire cracker played during CNY!!! I was just too shocked..stupid people who did that. I was probably there at the wrong time..but it was only 3pm!! Luckily it wasnt a bomb or tear gas/poisonous ones..or else i will end up in the hospital or worse dead.
Yesterday while walking back home...a person riding a bicycle was heading towards me. He stopped and asked me if i want to buy a walkman because he doesnt have a single cent. He was listening to it and took walkman out from his pocket, saying how brand new it is but it looked like an old piece of junk to me. I was like sorry dude, i have no cash either and i dont want your walkman. I quickly walked off........ ahhhh!! Luckily he didnt force me to buy his old junk or pull out a knife and start pointing at me...............or stab me from behind for not purchasing his walkman....(ok thinking too much). Its horrible.
Starting to get a bad impression of this place..well this is not the first time, there was once when me and my group of friends were crossing the traffic light at a junction during the night, a car stopped at the traffic light (cuz its red)..then i was like watching the car, P Pai with a few teenagers inside and the music incredibly loud..they started winding down the window...then when the car was turning at the junction..they started yelling at us...didnt quite hear what they said but yeah........they are just a bunch of kids who think that they are so great that they rule the entire Geelong city and its too bad for them cuz they dont have enough exposure. Wait till they go to Malaysia...or wherever..hopefully the philipinos will kidnapped them.
Ahhhhh..abit scared to move around now. Apparently the local people here dislike Asians, .......particullarly those from mainland china...dont know how true it is.
Anyways.........i better put some sharp / hard items enough to hit a person till he/she faints in my bag the next time i go out even to Uni.
..............thats it for now.
Its funny why each universities in every state of Aus has different dates of holidays..or shall i say Deakin Uni is abit stingy with inter-sem break..like for this Easter break/mid-term break we only have a week of hols, whereas the unis in Adelaide has two weeks break this coming 14th of April...
Besides, we have to go back to uni during Labour day.. = . =" (so what is labour day to the uni staff?)
Oh well..no point complaining.
Spend Easter over at my cousin's house in Melbourne..last weekend. Explored melbourne city with my friends on saturday and sunday, although most of the shops were closed but the city is still as busy as ever. The Asian population in Melbourne is quite large, so u tend to feel more homely..seeing more of your kind. plus u dont have to worry much about food, cuz there are lots of asian food restaurants around the corner!~~
We went to this Malaysian own restaurant on sunday to have lunch since two of my friends are muslims. We were the first customer, took our order and waited. More people were dining in and we continued to wait.........for like 3 hours and there comes my 'char kuey teow' !!!!
Those customers who came after us, ate and left before we do. Apparently there was only 1 cook....! One of my friends said he probably took the entire time preparing the ingredients or probably went to the market to get some fresh meat/poultry. Not worth waiting as the entire afternoon was wasted and everyone was starving. At least the Tom Yum soup was complimentary after the long wait. That would be the very first and the very last time i dine in there.
Made sushi for my relatives on monday! Hahaha which was great fun!~ Skill of rolling the sushi is improving..nyehehehe.
Went back to Geelong on tues, my relatives were forcing me to stay another night but i decided to head back to Geelong to sort out some of my stuff..one of them..completing my assignments..which is only half completed at the moment and heaps of readings to do!! Ahhhh!
Today i went to the post office to apply for my 'children check' ( cuz in the future i might deal with children therefore its better to apply for a pass). I arrived at the main post office in the city which is like 20-25mins walk frm my house. After handing in the form, the person who attended to me said that i need to show him my actual passport for identification, photocopy is not acceptable...arghhhh...
so i have to walk back home to get my passport, although i was dreading to walk another 25mins back through and flow....i decided to head to the uni library first to finish up part of my assignments.
I sorted out everything in the afternoon and went back to uni again to meet up with my friends. On the way to the uni, i was walking across the road and on my right hand side..the traffic light was green and a few cars was passing by, suddenly this person threw out something from the car. I thought it was a cigarrette, when i look at it there was smoke coming out and it looks like a straw orange in colour bout 6cm. At that point, i had a feeling that it was goin to explode! true enough it did, right in front of me...my reflex system was not fast enough to ask my leg muscles to stop and turn back....i just moved forward! The blast sounded like an ordinary fire cracker played during CNY!!! I was just too shocked..stupid people who did that. I was probably there at the wrong time..but it was only 3pm!! Luckily it wasnt a bomb or tear gas/poisonous ones..or else i will end up in the hospital or worse dead.
Yesterday while walking back home...a person riding a bicycle was heading towards me. He stopped and asked me if i want to buy a walkman because he doesnt have a single cent. He was listening to it and took walkman out from his pocket, saying how brand new it is but it looked like an old piece of junk to me. I was like sorry dude, i have no cash either and i dont want your walkman. I quickly walked off........ ahhhh!! Luckily he didnt force me to buy his old junk or pull out a knife and start pointing at me...............or stab me from behind for not purchasing his walkman....(ok thinking too much). Its horrible.
Starting to get a bad impression of this place..well this is not the first time, there was once when me and my group of friends were crossing the traffic light at a junction during the night, a car stopped at the traffic light (cuz its red)..then i was like watching the car, P Pai with a few teenagers inside and the music incredibly loud..they started winding down the window...then when the car was turning at the junction..they started yelling at us...didnt quite hear what they said but yeah........they are just a bunch of kids who think that they are so great that they rule the entire Geelong city and its too bad for them cuz they dont have enough exposure. Wait till they go to Malaysia...or wherever..hopefully the philipinos will kidnapped them.
Ahhhhh..abit scared to move around now. Apparently the local people here dislike Asians, .......particullarly those from mainland china...dont know how true it is.
Anyways.........i better put some sharp / hard items enough to hit a person till he/she faints in my bag the next time i go out even to Uni.
..............thats it for now.
8:12 PM