Friday, August 21, 2009

告诉你哦....

耶,Week 4 终于过去了。

这个星期好繁忙,累死了。2个实验课(2 x 三小时!!!)、1个 1000-word assignment、1个Quiz、1个物理考试。烦~

今天(拜五)考掉物理。够“粗”的,还好没有吃草,哈哈。

那不是重点。我写此post是要告诉你们今天上management课听到的有趣消息。

我的Management教授是个经验丰富的consultant,是很多大公司advisor之类的人物,帮忙上层策划公司的计划、策略等。我这个科目的课本也是他写的。哈哈,是不是很sat,这个人。

今天我们学“Planning”,谈到“Goals”。他举个例子:

“About a week ago, the Ministry of Higher Education in Malaysia has a --- let's say one of their highest pieces of purpose of statement is: They want three Top 50 universities to be in Malaysia. Top 50 in the world. Three Top 50 unversities in Malaysia, 10 years from now. ”

不是一间,而是三间? 十年以内????

哈.................................... =o=

(有没有搞错哦..... 我下载好这堂课的lecture recording了。有空时,我会割出这段话放上来,让大家听听。哈哈。)

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Mikan (Japanese for Mandarin Orange)

My life is just full of sia soi moments. =.=

Seriously.

I was finishing lunch out in the open (in campus) just now. I took out a mandarin orange and started to peel it.

Some people can peel them so nicely, but I'm the type that's TERRIBLE at peeling these things. Especially during CNY(when there's so many mandarins to eat), you can tell the worst "peeler" is me in my family.The skin comes off in pieces instead of sticking together to make a "flowerish" shape, and juice always spurts everywhere.

In the middle of popping three pieces into my mouth, a girl came up to me and said she was doing a survey. While she was talking, I was nodding, "mmm-hmm"-ing, and spitting the pits into my palm and throwing them into my container at the same time.

My god, so many pits in this mandarin! There's 4 to 5 in every piece I eat..... I keep spitting and throwing them ALL THE WHILE she was talking about the survey. =.=

It doesn't end there. She was out of survey sheets so she went back to her stall to get some. My hands were sticky with the juice so I took out my water bottle. When she came back, I was still washing my hands with my drinking water, pouring it into the bushes behind me. =.= Argh~

So, there you have it. =.=

Couldn't help it. I felt it was so comical that I had to find a computer and write it down. ^-^

p/s: Still in uni right now - the computers don't have Chinese. So I can't type "gan('kam')" in Chinese and can only say pieces of orange instead of "ban(the 'liang ci')". So ma-huan~

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Blueberries~

之前的post里,我写会放上那天做blueberry pastries的照片。现在就补回给你们吧!

“他-搭”!
厨房里有什么我就放什么,哈哈。
Blueberries、margerine、sugar、
cream、cornstarch、lemon juice、
condensed milk。
煮煮煮……









这些pastry case好像叫
vol au Vents。好像……









Decoration~
Splash of cream,blueberries.









Close-up.
I know you want it~ XD

Bluberry Puffs 出炉了!









其中一个的filling太多,流出来了=.=




















Mmmm~







Testing, testing~

好吃~

我知道"tart"叫塔,像芝士塔(cheese tart)、蛋塔(egg tart);"pie"叫派:苹果派(apple pie)、蓝莓派(blueberry pie)。

"Puff"叫什么勒?帕福? =o=

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

The First Year Experience Questionnaire

今天回到家时,看到Melbourne University寄来的信。很兴奋,哈哈。期待看里面是什么。上次生物部门寄来 "表扬你得H1" 的信;其实也没什么啦,不过那时收到我蛮开心的。^-^

打开来看,原来是问卷…… "The First Year Experience Questionnaire"。一本A4-size的booklet,回答后放进已准备好的reply paid envelope就可以寄回去了。总共6面问题,哇塞~

本来不想做的,不过看到这一句:
"The identity number on this questionnaire enables us to send a reminder notice to students who do not respond to the initial dispatch of the questionnaire."
哈咪?? 没有寄回去还要人来烦我……算了算了,做啦。

一大堆问题:Accomodation、Income、Study Habits、进度怎样、跟得上吗、教授解释得清楚吗…… 很多就是了,我再多说你也不会念的啦,最多用眼睛扫描罢了,哈哈。


只想分享问卷的其中一题:
Consider a typical 7-day week during Semester One. About how many hours did you spend on:
Course contact (e.g. lectures/practical classes)---21 hours/wk

Private Study--------------------------------------------3 hours/wk
Paid work------------------------------------------------0 hours/wk
Sporting activities/exercise-------------------------------0 hours/wk
Using the internet for study/research-------------------0.75 hours/wk
Using the internet for recreation-------------------------20 hours/wk
Socialising with family/friends/partner--------------------5 hours/wk
Community engagement activities as part of your course--0 hours/wk

可见我多么的凄惨。 =.=


一个星期内:
21小时在上课;
课堂间:在图书馆上网,念大家的部落格、帮姐姐玩Restaurant City,偶尔念书、整理笔记;
回到家:surf net、update blog、准备隔天的东西;
周末:从早到晚看动漫、漫画。
剩下的时间:吃、喝、睡、搭火车、看电视。

念书? 等到考试期间才拼咯。
上网做功课? 上tutorial前拼题目。去wikipedia巡。

姐姐看我填这部分,一直在笑。也难怪啦,我真的很堕落,堕落到可笑的地步了,哈哈。调查问卷的人一定很惊讶的,哈哈。这个学期要学乖了~

Friday, August 7, 2009

可爱的 Eric

那天我和妈妈讲电话。

她说前一阵子,有好几天载Eric去三小时,Eric叫她不要下车。平时妈妈、姐姐或我载他去学校,都会跟着他到课室的。

"你不要下来哈,我自己会。"

后来妈妈问他为什么不要她下去。原来,最近因为猪流感的关系,学校来了一些医生,要量学生们的体温。Eric怕妈妈被感染。OMG,感动到~

"你不可以生病啊,我不会照顾你哦......"

好乖噢,太孝顺了~ 果然是Eric,哈哈。

Fast Replay

Hello~ Sorry, long time no update. I've been preoccupied these weeks. My blog's gone into coma. Going to shock it back to life now, haha.

OK, here's a fast replay for the long, loooong duration that I didn't post anything in my blog:

... the Sunday before uni started:
Went out on an outing to Melbourne Zoo: I Sun、U Sun、Alvin、my sister、me and the Guest of Honour: Kiat. Had a great time: ate a Japanese lunch -- visited zoo -- then had dinner together at Sophia's. Pictures... a bit lazy to upload, still in my camera gok. =.= I'm pretty sure I Sun's and Kiat's blog will have posted them anyway.

... 开学:
Semester 2 commences! My subjects for this semester:
-Genes and Environment
This is 生物 lo~ Studying DNA and stuff. ^-^ No need explain too much la~
-Physics 2
There's Physics 1: Fundamentals and Physics 2: Life Sciences and Environment. They put me in Physics 2. Sheesh. Thought I had escaped physics for good.
-Experimental Design and Data Analysis
Studying how to design experiments, collect data, analyse data, probability, statistics.... that kind of thing.
- Managing People & Organisations
I was struggling to choose something from mangament/finance/accounting/economics/business.
I feel that I need to learn something useful for society in the future, other than my 理科 stuff.

... hate the weather here, especially the wind. So cold. Brrr~

... bought blueberries the other day:
And made blueberry puffs! Cooked the filling myself, but the pastry was ready-made de la, haha, store bought one. Really yummy. Will post pictures when I feel like it. =.= Paiseh, I so lazy right.....

... still hate the weather.

... Genes & Environment Practical two days ago:
You know, we did the bacteria culture on the agar, like in 一中. Wahaha~ And looked at bacteria under the microscope, see if they're Gram(+) or Gram(-).... they didn't let us do the 革兰氏染法 ourselves though. Pff...

... Dad came three days ago:
Haih.......