'Housekeeping'

Heyyyyy cleaning my blog today.

After I discovered Facebook (see previous post), I totally forgot about my blog!

And I planned to write a post on the last day of 2009 too. 31st of December ar...... It's 20th of January today! Argh, Amy Fam Yiu Cai, you horribly terrible procrastinator!

Anyway, I'll blurb along till I feel this post is long enough to 敷衍 everyone. ^^

Okay, first, my life has been sucked away by MouseHunt, a Facebook application. It's sooo...... unexciting (yes, you read that right, UNEXCITING) compared to other action games but I'm still possesed by it. Haih, haih, haih.....

Secondly, I remember thinking in Melbourne -- after exams, before discovering Facebook -- to blog about my results when they're released. My results were released AGES ago, and yet..... haha...... didn't post it all. I did better than last semester! ^o^

Thirdly, and most importantly, the Taiwan people are coming back! The love of my life (ah... wait... ueekkkkkkk *vomit*) a.k.a. Pony Chai will land in Kuching in... ah.... *looking at watch* an hour or so.
YeeJia's come back a few days ago (17th of January) but I haven't contacted him yet. Another dear friend (YuLing) is coming back today too, if I remember correctly! ^^

Okay, my blog's clean enough for now. See ya later! Baking CNY cookies soon so my blog will be revived soon enough, hehe.

震天动地的消息 Earth Shattering News

我们打断大家的生活以宣布此巨大消息!
We interrupt your lives to announce this HUGE piece of news!

非常刺激，意想不到、大开眼界的信息!
It's exciting information! Unexpected and shocking!

必须用中英双语转告以保证大家接收到这讯息。
It's specially posted bilingually to ensure the news is received widely.

准备好了吗??
Are you ready for this?!?

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紧张气氛。。。周围空气凝重。。。
Tension.........Suspense........

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我开了个facebook户口!
I've opened a facebook account!

=.=

The Twillight Saga: New Moon

嗨嗨，今天考掉Statistics了。哇哈哈~ Woo~ 剩多一科就可以享受自由了!

今晚先休息，待明天开始学Management吧! 现在来挤出一个短短的post。

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This post is for my New Moon fanatic friends. Has anyone seen it yet?

I remember when the Twillight movie came out. My fellow Kuchian female classmates were saying how good-looking Robert Pattinson is. "OMG，他很gentleman啊!"、"帅死~"、"去看，去看!你一定会迷上他的。"、"Oh, Edward..."。=.=

I haven't seen the first movie yet - I didn't even finish reading the first book properly - and I'm proud to say I'm one of those girls that haven't fallen under Robert Pattinson's spell yet. XD

My sister read all the twillight books from her friend and we've bought the 1st and 4th book so far. I read snippets from the final book eventhough I haven't read the second and third. I vaguely know how the story goes, hehe. So, I think watching New Moon should be okay. I won't be totally clueless.

I might watch New Moon. I might.... Then become a raving fan of Robert Pattinson. (O_o Oh, God forbid, please no.)

Anyway, here's the official trailer for New Moon:



Now, here's an exclusive banned trailer of New Moon! A must-watch! Enjoy!

Quick Post

Hey all, just a quick note to bring you up-to-date.

1. Exams are here!
考掉Genetics (蛮难的...) 和Physics (吃草，吃饱饱) 了!
多三天就轮到Statistics。OMG，这科不知道要怎么死才好。比物理还惨啊~
接下来是Management，然后我就自由了!! Wooh~ 期待...

2. Statistics
超pek-chek这科，最显得就是统计学。别去想高中我们学得统计学---和大学的天差地远。上学期的Calculus，买了它的课本（secondhand: $80+），结果连碰一次都没有。这学期，大家都不打算买数学课本。谁知?? 哈哈。

3. 我的部落格发霉了
有点感动，今天回来看，竟然还蛮多人留言的^-^。我还以为自己的部落格早死了。谢谢啦，大家~ 考试完后必定回复你们的留言、念大家的部落格（好久没念大家的部落格了：要怪莫怪我，怪考试! =.=）。

Clockwise and Anticlockwise?

Max told me to try this out just now, and it's pretty cool. =D

Go to one of these links, anyone one is fine (it's the same).
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,22492511-5005375,00.html
http://www.alchemysite.com/blog/2007/10/are-you-right-or-left-brain-dominant.html

You'll see a lady rotating clockwise/anticlockwise. Apparently she can turn in both directions, it depends on which side of the brain you are using at different moments.

If she's turning in the clockwise direction, you're using your right brain; if she's turning in the anti-clockwise direction, you're using the left brain. Some people can see her turning both ways, but some people can only see her turning one way.

At first, I could only see her rotating clockwise. I read some of the information beside her... when I looked back, she was rotating the other way. O_o Imagine that!

Now whenever I look at her, she turns clockwise then anti-clockwise, then clockwise.... back and forth, back and forth. I can't control when she changes though, she just does. It's really interesting.

I tried controlling her to change (apparently Max can...... sien..... zzzzz...... haha). I thought about logical, analytical stuff like "What made her do that?"/ "How does our brain work?"/ read the passages --- then talked to my sister/watched some youtube stuff to switch on my other side. It sort of works, haha. She really switches.

Try it out yourself! Tell me how you went and your findings!

P/S: Gotta go study soon, want exams le. Will start in 2 hours - no, tonight - no, tomorrow. Argh! ... Still duo luo here playing with mind games, hehe. Blame Max.

未來不明的我

今天陪姐姐來RMIT University的電腦室做功課，自己也帶了点東西來復習復習。這裡的電腦是用繁體字的，哈哈，不妨也學學看。

最近很煩惱明年要選的科目。2nd year 的兩個學期各只有三個科目：1個Core Subject、1個Selective Subject、1個Breadth Subject。

Core Subject是學校選的必修科目，所以不必擔心這一個；Breadth Subject是自己選和course無關的科目，如：French、Japanese、Music、Wine Tasting、Psychology、Finance、Accounting等... 很多就是了。想了好久。好不容易的，發現到蠻喜歡Management的，決定修到3rd year。

現在來了這個煩死人的Selective Subjects!! 必須從12個selectives選2個，1個學期1科。我們選的selectives牽連了3rd year major，因為是major的pre-requisites。

如果是你的話，你會選擇那個呢?
- Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
- Bioengineering Systems
- Biotechnology
- Cell & Developmental Biology
- Defence & Disease
- Genetics
- Human Structure and Function
- Microbiology, Infection & Immunology
- Neuroscience
- Pathology
- Pharmacology
- Physiology

我要拿Genetics，可是Genetics有兩個科目，要占兩個學期。該拿嗎? 還是要拿兩個只有一個學期的科目，可以學較多東西? 後來又聽同學說，念Neuroscience比較好，因為是甚麼new frontier，念醫科或牙科時會占較大的優勢......可我對神經學沒很大的興趣欸（真的有優勢嗎???）......

唉，我最不擅長做選擇的了，想東想西......或許是我沒主見，容易被其他人的選擇動搖；也許是我迷迷糊糊的，不知道自己到底要甚麼、人生目標是甚麼。

誰來給我一點點啓發呀......

Call me "Emily"

今天拜六，來城市念書。搭火車到Melbourne Central，我和姐姐想喝果汁，於是去BOOST Juice買。

我：“Hi, a lemon crush please.”
女店員：“A lemon crush? Sure. What size？”
我：“Umm... medium please.”
女店員：“Sure. Can I have your name?”
我：“Amy.”
女店員(鍵入資料，看上來，微笑)：“Won't be long now, Emily.”

Emily????? 哈哈。是我發音不准、聲量太小? 不然就是她聽覺有問題，哈哈。

不久後，果汁打好了。另一個店員，看著單，拿著杯，叫：“Emily.”

=.="

Pot charge sure to stick

Police say they’ve nabbed a real pothead.

An officer saw a 29-year-old Cesar Lopez peering inside his baseball cap in Lebanon, 120km northwest of Philadephia.

When he looked up, the officer noticed a small bag of marijuana stuck to his forehead.

The cop peeled the bag off Lopez’s head and arrested him.

－－－mX, 16 October 2009

哈哈哈，逊死了!!

Update!

幾百年沒寫部落格了。這個學期感覺上比上個學期忙很多欸... ... 相信大家都已点擊到厭倦回來查看我的部落格了，哈哈。不好意思啦~ 不知道還會有人來看看嗎，寫就是了。

這周已是Week 10了，再多兩個星期，我在大學的第一年就結束了! 然後就要考試了，怕怕...... 昨天考完物理小考，接下來的兩個星期沒甚麼考試或功課要交，就趁此機會掃一掃蜘蛛網。=)

Wise Words

校园里有一间图书馆，从门口一进来有个萤幕，是显示名句、格言、etc. 的。一天一句。前几天看到的：

Time you enjoyed wasting, was not wasted. -John Lennon

金玉良言! 变我的personal motto就惨了，哈哈。

Worst Day of my Life

今天一到学校，突然发现：忘了带lab coat。*￥#%@! 没有穿lab coat是不能进实验室的!还好我是union member，可以租一件。

OK，first crisis averted.

做实验：
因为下午有考试，我没有好好准备实验的pre-reading。结果做完实验时，考选择题， 我不太会。OMG OMG，前所未有。显。

Second crisis: Stumble.

下午了，考书：
25题选择题，回答完了，按'Submit'。Score：超级，超级烂。很很很很失望。如果明天有谁敢问我的mid-semester test考得怎么样，我会把他给杀掉。开始sien了。

Third crisis: Fall slat on face.

考完生物，去上统计学课：
乌云密布，要下雨了。不爽不爽不爽。今天回家要撑伞，又死不冷。心情真的转败了。

上课，分考卷：
唉...... 没有想像中的好。不甘心......

回到家，还有一个statistics online quiz 和Biology Independent Learning Task（ILT） 要做。烦死......

先做统计学的：
第一题，按错键钮，荧幕lag掉，所以点击backward按钮。在进考试的link，它说: Assessment has been submitted. Cannot be attempted again.
@*$%#&#!! What the hell! 零分!! 明天要去administration office处理, shit。不给我再考怎么办?!?!?!?! 总平均的两份勒!

做ILT：
10题选择题。Submit score: 7/10。Shit。也是前所未有。第一次拿到那么差的分数。

@#%$!&*^%$#@^!&*!@^#*^%$*@·#￥%—*!!!!!!!!!!!!

求救讯号 >.<

在KL念书的朋友们：

有谁在12月3日可以收留我吗? 我和姐姐那天从墨尔本飞来吉隆坡，要过个夜，因为隔天要在KL做medical check-up。然后就飞回古晋了。

如果能找到住宿，妈妈说回古晋的机票可以定晚一点，可以留在kl多几天，和朋友enjoy enjoy~ 如果没有也没关系啦，住酒店罢了嘛，12月4日回咯~

就这样，广告仅此，哈哈。

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。)

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~

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=

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~

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.......

Back to Melbourne

Getting lazier and lazier to blog stuff these days... I'm gonna use rojak language for this post, so bear with me~

Today's my 5th day back in Melbourne, and already I'm very pek chek at the cold --- back to wearing socks, jackets, etc. etc. all day AT HOME and hot baths, lack of lovely food --- I miss Mum's cooking T-T, and good entertainment --- TV here ar, haih~

我很不舍得古晋..... 我的家人、 朋友、哥罗面、弹钢琴、 Astro..... 连暑热都想念=.=。

On the plus side, internet connection here is much, much faster than in Kuching. I have a whole new semester to look forward to... I'm going to study better this semester!

I have a whole week free before uni starts ^-^. My sister and I had planned to visit the Melbourne Zoo、Melbourne Aquarium, trawl around City Centre, go window shooping etc. --- but because H1N1 still very serious here, a lot of plans had to be cancelled. AND her semester starts this week, so I'm very much bored at home. =.= So pitiful...

昨天陪姐姐去city：她上课；我在自己的campus荡，哈哈。去图书馆借多多DVD回家一起看。查时间表 --- 学校的automatic allocating system排得蛮惨的，所以必须到student centre调整。买物理课本。也去了艾珊的apartment呆，哈哈。很废的一天。

这次回古晋和好友出、每天和家人渡过，很开心^-^。没有见到佳盈、秀萍、秀晶等，有点可惜=.=。有机会送文龙去KL念书，九月份时玉玲、1+他们也要去台湾了。总觉得有点伤感。哈哈。

Results Released Today （O_o）

今天成绩放榜了... 我在大学的第一学期.... 好紧张！想起几个星期前的自己，那里kin tio考试.... 平时不念书、做笔记etc... 不像一些人那么勤奋。考试前才来pia，不知道自己考得好不好啊~ 怕怕...

成绩在澳洲早上10点（也就是马来西亚的8点）放榜。早上载那两粒小瓜上学，荡了一会儿就8点了，可是我又不敢去看... 呜~~~考到很差怎么办??? 还是晚点看好了。哈哈.....

后来，姐姐陪我坐在电脑前；Login 后，鼠标点击“Get My Results” 的大大按钮（真的很大，超级恐怖...），荧幕空白一阵子，开始load了...... *呼吸困难*

MY RESULTS (Subject--Mark--Grade)

Creative Writing: Ideas and Practice--073--H2B
Chemistry for Biomedicine------------085--H1
Calculus 2----------------------------088--H1
Biomolecules and Cells----------------089--H1

RESULT CODES (Grade---Mark---Description)
H1-----80-100---First Class Honours
H2A---75-79-----Second Class Honours Division A

H2B---70-74-----Second Class Honours Division B

H3----65-69-----Third Class Honours

P------50-64-----Pass

N------0-49------Fail

Ei?!? 还不错~感谢主！我要来haolian一下，哈哈。看，数学，和中学时比起来，好多了~ 其实是中学的数学比大学的难（真的！）^-^。没想到，超难的Chemistry还有85分，嘿嘿。生物我最满意啦。Pfff...我的Creative Writing ,=.=" 还希望至少有H2A。算了~

妈妈要请吃了，哇哈哈~~