Some ranting

I now know why the heck some of the JPA scholars complain that they don't have enough spending money for the month. Let's see the breakdown of numbers for them.

Spending money for a month: $1200

Rent: $200 a week = $800 a month, assuming electricity and water are paid for.

Food: $200 a month, assuming that they eat at home, ie: cooking their own food at home.

Phone: $79 - $149 a month for an iPhone.

Total spent in a month: $1079 - $1149, leaving $51 - $121 as savings.

So tell me why they need an iPhone here. Bloody hell. It's too common here. Everyone who can afford one has one, so they think they need one as well. Honestly speaking, since I can't afford one, I don't think of having one. So please don't think that since the government is paying your bills, you can afford to have an iPhone.

Bantering

Try reading some of the emails I get in my uni mailbox. They're a very good way of killing time, especially when the people replying hit the reply button without thinking of editing the recipients. So my mailbox is full of rubbish mail, clouding the real mail from lecturers and tutors.

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I think IT services in the uni is not good enough. They seemingly can't install Firefox 3. Maybe they won't install Firefox 3. Which isn't any good.

For lack of a suitable title

The life of a university student is quite monotonous, if you only consider what you do in lectures, practical sessions and tutorials. It's the things you do outside of uni hours that actually is the spice of our life.

Here you get all sorts of things to do. Paintball, BBQs, beer parties, you name it, they have it.

*Crap, ran out of ideas to write.*

Signing off first then.

Due to popular demand

Here you go. Guys, this is my room. Bloody dark. isn't it? This is in the morning, as my eyes see it. Just a single sliver of light. Darkness. Complete and whole.

Silent times

I realised something's wrong with
my room.
It's too dark, especially in the morning.
Cause the blinds don't work,
the light's too dim.
It may be good
for playing L4D at 2 at night,
it isn't good for studying
by midnight oil.

The blinds are thick,
it's quite quiet.
Sometimes too quiet.

Now I need the lights on
to sleep. Not for comfort
but for precaution.
Against sleeping in.

***Trying my hand at Creative Writing. Comments?***

***I can't think of a suitable title for this post, so I'll leave that out first.***

There's a lack of coverage of EPL football over here. I kinda miss that. But Champions League is readily available here.

It is kinda crap that you have to be 18+ to play paintball here. Bloody hell, it's not fair. But I might find some way around that rubbish. I hope to do so, or else I'll be missing out on a hell lot of paintball. 4 hours! I'm not going to miss out on so much fun. Not so fast.

Looks like I'm ranting. A lot.

uni life so far

One phrase sums everything up pretty well. Bored but tired.

So far the stuff seem to be a revision of topics from pre-uni level. Which is fine for most, but not for me. Come on, bring in the heavy guns, we need 'em! I mean, A-level students can master hyperbolic functions pretty well. Maybe the Aussie syllabus doesn't allow for hyperbolic functions, so that's why we're learning them again in Calculus 2. Oh well, I've just gotta live with what I've got.

Chem is fine so far, starting with organic chemistry. Isomers ftw. Molecular chemistry should actually go hand in hand with quantum physics, but that's my personal definition.

I think that's about all I can think of for now.

More to come!

More updates!

***A word of warning first: Don't expect massive, daily updates like some of the other bloggers' blogs. I'm now busy, so I can't possibly update as fast as others. And I try to make meaningful posts, so just be patient and wait for updates. Most likely I'll update on a weekly basis.***

Anyway, life in Melbourne isn't as boring as I thought. But it isn't as fun as most of you will think. Living in a suburb with old folks as your neighbours, that's definitely kinda boring. On the other hand, going to uni, hanging out with a couple of friends, now that's fun. Although the windchill gets to me a lot. Don't laugh.

Now I have to go and figure out whether to buy my lab stuff and other books. I think I might not. And yet I still might.