Melt

Tis the end of winter, also heralding the 52nd birthday of Malaysia. Not that it feels significant to me, it would help us better if they stopped bickering over trivial stuff at home. Independence Day would be more welcome if problems were sorted out beforehand.

Delays

I know the scenery at East Camberwell station is nice. But you don't have to stick us there for ~10 minutes just so that we can enjoy it.

People with too much time on their hands

197 students caught for khalwat in schools

So. It looks like religious people have too much time on their hands, I think. Why else would they bother with teenagers with raging hormones when there are bigger fish to catch?

Once again, the people with too much time on their hands have struck again. *sigh*

Back again

System Restore is most likely to be the most underrated skill hidden within the Windows OS. At least it has got me back online again, which of course makes me pretty happy. Blogging and Facebooking and foruming again.

I'm not clicking on random links again.

Troy

They gave us the Trojan Horse.

And I have one of them. Dammit.

Need to flush it out of my laptop before any shit hits the fan.

MOMU AGM | Poker Night | Doncaster

I started this last night and haven't actually finished this post until this morning. Lazing around FTW.

Anyway it was hectic for the past two days.

MOMU AGM: What an organised AGM. And a half dead one to boot. I'm pretty sure the returning officer must have found MUOSS's AGM to be more lively than this one. Even I found IESS's to be more upbeat. But anyway, I don't know how promoting Malaysian culture to Melbourne Uni students will encourage people to join. It might just be me, but I'm pretty sure that you'd come here to Melbourne not to see more of your fellow countrymen. [Bias showing clearly]

Poker Night: One word covers it all: Frenzy. Why the hell did everyone decide to sign up at the last minute? I know it helps us that people show their enthusiasm, but it doesn't help the fellows at registration. Well, enough of whining. I got two prizes at the raffle draws, so I'm happy. And to round off an interesting night, one of the Poker Club members who signed up won the grand prize! Now they have their own set to use.

Doncaster: I hate linear programming now. It kinda ruined my chances of getting this particular tutoring position. I should have checked beforehand, but what the hell.

Raindrops

They make me emo and deenergised. Maybe demotivated as well. Right now I'm supposed to be doing more stuff than just this. But of course, I don't look like I've done things like that. So.

Someone give me a good hard shove. I'd like to try going over the edge sometime.


Cold fingers numbs the creativity as well.

Gumballs

I have a mini gumball machine sitting in one corner of my house. Just got it today, random encounter of the human kind in the dungeon.



I'm still thinking about how to use it. Should I sell gumballs, or should I keep the gumballs for myself?

Nothing

... characterizes the life now. Nothing much to talk about yet.

Poker Night is this Friday night. Maybe there'll be a bigger update here after that's out of the way. Maybe not.

Rush

aka The Dummies' Guide to Doing Homework.

Step 1. Look at assignment.
Step 2. Check Wikipedia for quick review of topic. If assigned topic is easy, skip to step 4 straight away.
Step 3. Google your assignment topic for more detail.
Step 4. Decide that you understand the topic through and through.
Step 5. Make a note on your calendar to remind yourself of the due date for your assignment.
Step 6. Party, enjoy life.
Step 7. 2 days before due date, start rushing. [Coffee is vital for this step]
Step 8. Submit assignment 2 hours before the due time on the day itself.

Rule of Assignments #1. The closr to the start of the semester you get your assignment, the more likely you will have to rush the darn thing.

Open Day

"Remember to wear warm clothing, it's predicted that we'll get temperatures around 12 degrees on Sunday."

Yeah right. Intermittent rain and strong winds isn't exactly going to help an Open Day anyway. Most of the day was spent guiding people to wherever they wanted to go to, and handing out helium balloons [although with the wind, I'd hate to hold on to balloons for the rest of the day].

Spring

Temperatures are rising, spring is approaching. And come mid-spring, I'll be free again.

One of those days...

... when you look at yourself, and go "what the fuck have I done with my life so far?"

Relativity

It's interesting to find that all I have to do is to get home, switch on my laptop and then the next thing I know, it's 12 midnight and I haven't done a thing at all.

Time dilation or length contraction, I doubt either would explain how time flies this fast.

Lectures

"Due to conditions beyond my control we will have to cancel today's lectures. There will be no lectures on Wednesday 12th of August."


People sitting in the lecture theatre now: FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU.....

Slackers setting off late from home: Yay :D

Trains

It's pretty awesome, the type of people you see on trains.

You get the friendly noisy stranger, who talks to you on trains. A friend of a friend of mine found one guy who could yodel very well. And that was only because the yodeller talked to this friend first.

You also get the politically motivated activist. They'd go around, handing out survey forms to passengers, asking for signatures. There was this guy I met one night, he was trying to collect enough signatures to petition to boot Connex out of handling the Melbourne public trains.

And then you get the evangelists, who'd get on the train and start asking people, "Would you like me to read you a story?"

Ah, the fun of travelling on trains in Melbourne.

Rage

"This ATM has run out of $20 notes. Please enter a different amount."


FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.....

Repetition

Life is monotonous this time of year. Although it's coming to the end of winter [spring officially starts on the 1st of September], I don't feel it. There's some sort of delayed lethargy settling into my bones now.

Wake up.
Shower.
Eat breakfast, pack lunch.
Go to train station.
Arrive at city, get tram to uni.
Go for classes.
Hang out with friends. [who don't always notice your presence]
Go to train station.
Get home.
Switch on laptop.
Stone until hungry or tired.
Sleep.

Rinse and repeat as required.


Some days I feel worse than a machine.

Writer's Block

What happens when you get an assignment barely a week into the new semester, as well as two event reports to write up, and one of the event reports is poorly written.


Headbang. No way this should be happening. But it is. T_T

Renting

450 bucks for an [almost] empty shell of an apartment.

City prices drive me nuts. And so does the Malaysian student mentality. What to do, except sit around and pray someone manages to change their mindset.

Uphill

Everything in life goes up, or so they say.


Note to self: Don't go jogging uphill again.

Laments

Every day, the same questions ring in my empty head.

Why.

A thousand times a day, the same question, repeating endlessly, as though demanding attention.

Yet there is no ready answer.

Articles

As the editor, and the guy who's taken Creative Writing, I can't believe how difficult it is to write a simple short article of something that I attended and just happened 2 days ago.



Ouch.

Questions

Life certainly is funny.

Why do two people who like each other deny that reality?

Demotivators 2

Just for laughs.

Invisible

Why am I constantly that one person who's left out of the conversations?

Why does the silence seem inevitable?

Why don't things fall "naturally" into place?

Why do relationships have to screw up friendships?

So many questions.
So few answers.
When, oh when, will the wind stop howling?

Box Hill 2

I've been up there too many times. Except that this time round, I'm just another invisible little kid, heard but not seen, wandering around.

Sometimes I wonder why I bother. It was a trip which was "supposed" to cheer me up by sending me into the sunlight. Yeah right. As though it helped.

-I'm just a kid
And life is a nightmare
I'm just a kid
I know that it's not fair
Nobody cares
Cos I'm alone and the world
Is having more fun than me
Tonight-

Outings

Just another way of saying "You've got work to do while everyone else is skiing."

On the other hand we get to go somewhere, stretch our legs a bit. Trade offs seem to be the mainstay of our lives, isn't that right?