I hate this....no German class AGAIN!!!!!!!!  and same reason: not enough people!!! ARGGHHHHH....sien!

I have been wondering, have I been complaining a lot? I complained about the weather, I complained about the cleanliness, I complained about being tired.....

Well, the weather is really terrible, it can rain one day and not the next day...get too cold...but I can't just praise the weather, can I? There is nothing I can do about it..the cleanliness..well...when it is dirty..what can I do? Clean it all by myself..or nag...and at the end, I sound like ah ma..don't complain, and close my eyes? Maybe that is a better thing to do...

I guess I should start praising instead of complaining - Melbourne's weather is wonderful. It rains when it should, and it gives enough sunshine!!! hahaha...kinda fake though..but I guess I have to learn how to accept things the way it is and not get toooo tensed and overstressed.....

conclusion: CLOSE MY EYES - SEE NO EVIL :P

By the way, here is a piece of information from Siang Chin :
drinking a glass of milk a day can lower colon cancer risk by 15%

We always link gambling to casinos: blackjacks, roulette, poker, pokies....and today I discovered something new from my real estate finance lecturer.....LIFE INSURANCE..it is actually gambling that when are you gonna die!!! To think about it, (even though I am doing actuarial science) it is very very true!

My cousin plan to be in Melbourne for 3 weeks, but apparently it appears to be too short. It has already been one and the half week and we hardly do anything. Brought him to Fallscreek for ski and he broke his wrist; visited Melbourne Musuem and Immigration Musuem; went to Frankston and we all got drunk except Phang; drove to Pennisular Bay but the weather was too cold and no sunset; and finally today I brought him to visit Melbourne Uni...

well, at least he came: those are the places that I will never go! Put it this way, when you stay too long at a place, (even for a short term) you tend to forget that you are actually a visitor and ignore the tourist spots; you start taking things for granted and this is what happening to me! Besides, I never know that the Melbourne has sooo many musuem to visit. The Immigration Musuem is rather interesting - we even found out that in year 1996, there were 24,000 ++ Malaysian in Melbourne....

All these trips, especially driving around the bay reminded me of my stay in Switzerland. I had such a interesting year. I am glad I travelled the whole of Switzerland, danke Mutti, Daddy, Tim, Jan und Sara, you have made my stay wonderful. I am looking forward to earn my first plane ticket to Switzerland and this time, I will drive around myself.....and would also tour around Europe...but that would be another few years before I start working...otherwise like I always said, I would need to marry a billionaire husband..haha

Back to Phang. He wiill be off for a few days to Sydney, so I will have my time to organise my stuff for the new sem. Attended two lectures today and oh my god, there are kind heavy! Lots of work to do and the most irritating is that, they don't have any text books!!!! So, I have to rely really heavily on the lectures - dass heisst - NO MORE SKIPPING CLASSES (which is why I am not going to Sydney anymore)!

Also, I have enrolled myself for German classes, hopefully they have enough people this time to open the second level class. Everytime I enrolled, there were never enough people...urrgh..tried to get my friends to learn, but one of them chicken out!!! (no offence TE, but why stop after you learnt?) Hopefully we have 8 people this time. I checked it out and including Moon, Alissa and I there are 4 of us...oh well...druck die Daumen!

Gosh..have been eating good food since I got back from KL..actually..good food started even before I left melbourne...

Wah tan Hor, Tiramisu, peking duck, keropok, gonyiok, laksa, tepanyaki, steamboat, seafood, seafood Bah Kut Teh, Mango Loh, dim sum.....wat is next I don't know..but I am sure, at least for another 2 weeks because Phang is still around!! Fat Fat Fat Fat......*_*

yummmy....had peking duck today...it was a treat from Li Yen's mum..thanks aunty!!! However, the "si fu" (chef) was a little annoying, he irritated us...it started with him demanding us to follow what he wanted to do: We had to put just ONE pancake on our plate, and then ONE piece of cucumber and ONE piece of spring onion.., and it cannot be more...at the direction of 3 o'clock! (Mind you, not anywhere else), a piece of duck, with some sauce, fold it from 6 0'clock, 12 o'clock and then 9 o'clock..and if you do it wrongly..he would be nagging!!!! Urggh...hahaha..and I even ordered for Duck bones for Angelene's mum..later I decided to get 2 more for myself, and he was complaining that I should have asked for more earlier....duh....But I have to admit that the duck was VERY VERY nice..and this is the first time I see Li Yen enjoying duck!
 
Due to Vincent's persuasion, we also had banana fritters. He told me earlier that it is a must to eat...and..considering Vincent's taste bud, I decided to give it a try...hahahaha the pisang goreng was not very tasty as I expected...but something else amuzed me! The deco of the plate was in such that, the banana was in the middle, sticking upwards, and there are two other scoops of ice-cream on each side of the banana...owwww...if u understood what I meant...hahahha and we laughed till the other table next to us were also laughing!! That was something very very funny!!
 
thank you aunty for the wonderful dinner!

Went to the Melbourne Museum together with Phang today, and came across the section - Children's museum....and instantaneouly, I wish I were young again. 8 would be the best age, no worries, no stress, smart enough to do stuff myself......don't have to face any problems..no depression....

Oh well....I guess this is life, you cannot define what you want it to be, you have to move on with it!
 
By the way...I have already changed the settings, comments could be posted (blurred me, I didn't know I had to set it!)

The moment the bas drove down the mountain, I know I gonna miss the snow and the snowboarding....and my heart broke more when I turned back to look at the beautiful sunset: the whole mountain was pink!
 
Well..this was a very dramatic trip! First Yit and I flew back from KL to Melbourne and  left the same night at 2 am to Falls Creek. Upon arrival (early in the morning), we went snowboarding straight away, without proper breakie or even rest. The weather was beautiful and the snow was soft. Everything looked perfect. But after lunch, the weather turned bad. Yit and I was bold enough to try the intermediate tracks even we were beginners; We snowboarded at different trails even the visibility was only around 2km. Guess what? We were LOST! We couldn't find our way, and had to take off our board and started walking...but good thing we manage to get back to one of the biggest meeting point...well....we continued boarding despite of the incident. to think of it, maybe we shoudn't....because the next thing that happened was Yit broke his wrist!! It was our last trail and we were heading back to our rooms. I arrived at the bottom of the slope and fell. Yit was behind me, and after I got up and moved, Yit fell at the same spot (damn spot!). It wasn't until the next morning that we got to the doctors and were told that clinically his wrist was broken. (Stupid hotel reception that told us, the medical center will only attend to patient with life and death situation after 5.30pm)! My poor cousin who had to suffer with the pain that whole night!
 
The next morning - BAD WEATHER....all ski lift were close except one, windy and bad visibility. So, in a way, it was good for Yit and I because we spend half the morning at the medical center!
 
The last day, I made the full out of it, snow boarded alone although it was extremely dangerous to do so. I had no choice because my other friends were not as daring and as bold as me. But I was pretty careful this time, to control my speed and improve my breaking skills. I didn't want to end up like Yit..
 
Well, we had steamboat and tepanyaki for dinners (we carried everything from Melbourne to the mountains mind you - there were 8 of us in the group; Yit, Moon, Rick, Kevin, Aunty Virna, Vivian and Si Hui). Food was yummy!
 
Oh not forgetting to mention, the world is so small, because we ended meeting Vincent's good buddies. They were our neighbour and ended up having dinner with us.
 
Thanks guys, you all made the trip worth going although there was bad weather. All help contributed - esp moon doing the groceries is highly appreciated!!!!
 
and now, the end of my ski trip, back to reality - clean my room, eat, sleep and enjoy. I have got one more week before i have to start putting in 200% effort to study!!
 
 

This winter holiday has been very different. Within three weeks, I experience all the fun, enjoyed all the laughter, but yet, I had to deal with a lot of pain and stress.

Yes, I met nice people. They are friendly, adventurous, crazy (worse than me) and fun! Thanks to this bunch of monkeys and jokers, who are great entertainers. Also, they all know how to enjoy food. They live to eat and not eat to live!! Eating with them definitely increases my appetite. Especially Vince who is the eating expert (he even brought us to Klang to eat seafood Bah Kut Teh- something very new to Ann and I), and Chern Yuen & Chee Yeong (I think Chee Yeong eats more) who eat up everything. Kayaking with them was also one thing I treasure most. Without this bunch of monkeys, I would never be able to kayak so far, to Pulau Lima (poor Jin, he had to kayak much harder because I am soo weak, but anyway I bet it was a good training for him =P). As usual, sun rise was lousy...but it was worth looking at the formation of the clouds (without my glasses). We also had a good laugh at Nicholas who walked along the beach with the mask. Apparently he didn't have his glasses, and the powered mask helped him see better. I honestly think it was just an excuse...he wanted to hunt for more chicks..=^_^=(no offence)! and poor John, he was dragged into the dance floor by me... I hope he enjoyed the dancing anyway! I do really hope these monkeys enjoyed the trip despite the fact that they are now suffering from sun burnt! Hopefully I have a chance to join them for any silly trips again...thanks guys!

I enjoyed my holiday but there were some problems that were bothering me. Learning how to deal and commnuicate with my love ones were extremely stressful. I realised communicating is one problem, learning how to show my affection of love was also a problem. I really didn't know how to cope and deal with problems of growing teenagers. I was unable to put forward reasonable explanations for everything that happened. Sometimes I felt like I failed being a good sister and a daughter...

Although I am glad that holiday is almost over, in which I could close half my eyes to the problems, I missed all the fun. Well, I miss Redang...I miss the sea, I miss the sand, but I will be seeing snow again tomorrow...!!!