Self-sooth

To self-sooth myself. I decide to go to Borders. I manage to spend, give and take an hour there.

What I got for myself :

I searched through amazon and Eat Pray Love got great book reviews. The writer, in her 30s left home and head to Italy, India and Indonesia for a year. Reason being: she wanted to find pleaser, devotion and balance. Hmmpphh.. should be interesting read.

Anthony Bourdain. Need I say more. I read Kitchen Confidential earlier this year, which Gavin highly recommended it. I believe this book will continue to engross me. His writing is sharp and with a twist of phrase.

Only got myself two books eventhough I caught my eye on:

Totally love it. I wonder when I will get my hands on it... Hmmpph.... *Should I* Should you*

Oh.. as I was q-ing up at the cashier, this CD caught my eye. I was so so so tempted. It's really a good collection. All my favorite U2 songs are in there. I love 'One' best.

Should I get it??

Need to Chill

I need to cool down and not let this assignment to frustrate me any more. Whatever I could do was done and over.

To cheer me up? a good dinner.

I will be trying out an Indian Restaurant call Punjabi Palace.
Great reviews.

Just call the restaurant for reservations.
6.30pm

Can't wait.

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Communication assignment - BaaAah!

ARGGHhhhHHHhhhhh....

Just wanna scream out loud... Reason?? I am in an extremely opinioniated group for assignment.

There are two who would not even listen to other thoughts. Everyone has their very own idea.
I just want to get things done. Too much opinions will never get the job done.

I want it done. period. And be over with.

Living at the heart of City

I am living in the city. That's rite, the heart of the city.. or perhaps the corner of the heart.

It's just a street away from Queen Street.

I love the fact that whenever I have a sudden craving for ice cream in the middle of the night, I can just slip on my slipper and head down to 7/11 with my Pjs.

I love the fact that I can just go Coles or the Korean supermarket whenever I ran out of stuff within minutes.

I love the fact the bus stand to the uni is just 2 streets away.

I love the fact that I can always get food, coffee anytime I want. Err... Correction, everything close here around 5pm.

*sighZ* But anywayz I will have to move at the end of September. Too bad. The tower will be shifting operation to service apartment.

Been looking for 2 saturdays with zero results. *SiGHZ*

YiiShuin's full Moon

I finally manage to meet up with Aunty and Uncle.

They are in town! Yup. Aunty and Uncle is Hooiling's parents. I do not know how to call them so just aunty and uncle. Of Coz... they are no ordinary uncle or aunty.

They arrive Brisbane a couple of days later than me. We wanted to meet up sooner but their grandson decide to arrive into our world earlier then expected :D

His name is YiiShuin.

On Sunday, I went to KokKeong korkor house in Sunnybank. I was late as there is a previous engagement. Need to head out to Logan to an outdoor park outing in the morning.

I am really happy to see aunty and uncle :D They both seems well and healthy as usual. The house is full of people. Hurray!! I do get bored here somtimes.

Aunty cook LOADS OF FOOD! HAhA.. I practically eat non-stop during my whole duration there. I was so full but I still can't help to eat.
Food : Fried BiHun, Nasi kunyit, Curry Chicken, Pork Stew, Belacan, Mix Vege, Fried Ginger Chix, Fried noodles.

The crowd was fun too.There are more than 15 ppl and most of them from Malaysia. Most of the time, I played with the children. We played hide and seek, drawing, gardening, fights and killing. Haha...

TWINS!! Emma and Peterson

Yii Hern :D KokKeong's elder son

Only later during the evening (after another heavy meal) , KokKeong korkor decided to begin to play blackjack. Just for fun...So around 10 of us (uncle included) played along. Maximum bet is $2. We started of with BlackJack until KokKeong korkor taught us a game call "Deng" . A game common in the north part of Malaysia and in Thailand. It was good fun! HAha... much much better than blackjack :D.

Had a good fun :D

Oh. wanted to note down : I made potato salad and bake a cake on Saturday!! CoOlz!

Addicted to Coffee

I am dead. I am totally dead.

I did not realize that I am addicted to coffee until today.

The very day I arrive Brisbane, I have been starting to drink coffee nearly every day. Okay. I have to admit I quit on my fags. Totally zero fags. I quit and stop. I made my choice. No! I did not have any craving at all. I am strong and very much motivated to stop it. This coming over here make it a better situation to quit. New environment, new lifestyle and not to mention on the price of fags here.. GoshPrettyEx!! So I call it a quit.

Here I am addicted to C-O-F-F-E-E.

Reason being:
1) it's winter... a hot cup of drink is desirable after a bus ride.
2) Merlo's serves good strong coffee
3) it kinda keeps me awake during seminars ( 3 hours!! )
4) Merlo's is on my way classes
5) Coffee is everywhere here

It's a Friday. I dun have seminars on friday. I plan to be in my room today. Just read and play my game. O... and watch Grey's Anatomy. Plus the weather is real bad. It's been raining day and night for more than 4 days. It's extremely windy too. So me in my cosy apmt is the best way to spend Friday. Did I ever mention that I LURVE Friday, along with most of the people I know too. Cindy Cluny is one of them :D

Oh well. It's afternoon already, I was watching Grey's until the headache started to kick in. My head started all fuzzy and wizzy. I wondered what's wrong.... only to realise I am low in caffeine!! It's raining and cold. I so dun feel like getting out of my cozy bed.

Coffee rulz. I changed and head down. Gosh! This is why living right in the heart of city is so amazing, a freshly brewed coffee is just 22 floors down.

I ordered an extra large. It is not as good as Merlo's but wat the heck. ME NEED KOPI.

Ciao

Assignments

I miss the days when in Utar the assignments is just another easy thing to do..

The main reason?? I have loads of friends to do it with. The friends who are good in their work. Friends who are easy going. Friends who treat everyone as friends :D

In total, I have a good bunch of friends to work with and ended up with good marks too :D The process doing assignments are fun and enjoyable. I am usually more focus on what we will eat after the meeting or perhaps before the meeting. Or just wanted to get the job done and over with.

Without them here now. Hmm... saddens me.

I just need to put so much more effort to do my assignments.

O Bugger.

I have like 4 subjects and in total of 3 individual assignments and 3 group assignments with 3 semester exams.

O Bugger Bugger...

The Difference and LOCO ROCO!

The difference between Here and There

Phone Ringing: Extremely low / Quite often
Ipod usage : Very often/ Seldom
Public transport : Often / Least
Walking: Quite often / Not so much
Online: Nothing much difference
Driving: Not so/ Constantly
Cook: Amazingly lots / Very seldom

Read: Similar
Eat: Much more/ Sufficient



The things I miss and notice the diffferent most is my mobile. It seldom ring. My iPod usage is really high as comparing in KL. O cooking! Gosh! I must say that my cooking is much much more edible .. Hell! It is GOOD!! MuaHahAhaha.. Yup. I do cook and I can cook. Actually I think it's every human instinct to cook.

My iPod is my constant companion, so much, until it is always low in batt. *SighZ* My only solution is to use PSP!! MuahAhAhhaaHha.... Only when I forgot to charge my iPod (quite often).

I got 2 games for the PSP. It's so super duper GOOD!!!!! One of it is Gurumin and ...

Lemme introduce LOCO ROCO :D

It's a really cute and fun game... Err.. did I ever mention that I am bad in playing all sort of games. As Onnie mention, I am bad in coordination and have zero patience. Still.. it is loads and loads of fun. I give it a 9 over 10.

Market Day

The CuPCakes!! Arent' they just beautiful, delicately designed with care.

Flowers at the Market is also cheaper and more exotic :D Me Likey!

Yup! I fell in love with the Saturday Market.

The food there is irrisistable. From Cupcakes to Garlic Turkish Bread... From Curry Puff to Ricecrackers. It's all good and duper yummy.

Oh... I am fatter by day. Since the day I arrive here, all I think of is food. The food here is bigger in portion and creamier too! The desserts here are all fattening. And the chips here are more yummier too. The cold is not doing any good either. I just keep on eating :P But it's all for the good. I love food. I am having constant craving for the tort chips.

That does not mean that I do not miss M'sian food either. I already have a list, mind you! I will be patiently waiting till Devember for :

-Curry Mee (oldtown)
-LokeLoke (Ipoh Gdn East)
-Hakka Mee (My dad and I's breakie)
-Wanton Mee (oldtown)
-Yong Tau Foo (PJ)
-Heong Peng (Ipoh)
-Bak Kut Teh (Klang)
-Mum's cooking
-Steamboat (Eli and San)
-Char Keoy Teow with SEE HUM (Robert's)

A Diff route.. A Diff Mood

I finally manage to finalise all my subjects and courses. It has been hell last 2 weeks for me. I was scared that I could not able to allocate 8 units this semester and the subjects for sem is limited due to lots of timetable clashes.

Finally! I manage to take a deep breath and do watever was needed.

I was feeling rather chirpy and relieved after everything sorted out at uni. I decided to walk around the campus. I wanted to venture out a bit from the normal route. I decided to stroll along the lake. Which was rather ridiculous, as I just bought 3 textbook that is awfully heavy. Then again, my mood ... is GOOD! So it does not really matter.

It is really beautiful.


I found out another bus stop at the other side of the lake. It's the 109 bus stop. I always wonder where this bus stop at uni. The usual bus I took is 412, which stops right in front of the uni's sudent centre. That day, I took a different route back to city.

Hmmm... A change out of the norm. I think it's always good to do sth different once in awhile. It's oddly refreshing and make your mind wander bit. The route is headed from South side of Brisbane ( SouthBank ) then to city.

I think I'll try to take the citycat(boat ride) one day to uni :D ehhe..

Hey!! Did I mention that I manage to finish off Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. IT'S PERFECT. It took me 3 days to finish it. I was so anxious, I like it from the very beginning to the end. Although at the middle, was a bit dull... BIT!! It is when Harry and Hermoine shifting around places without any clue to find the Horcrux. Altogether it is definitely better then the previous book.

My favorite Harry Potter is still the fourth :D I love it to bits... from the Quidditch World Cup to the Triwazard Tournament ... dragons, Winky, maze,Viktor Krum. It is all good good good.

Cheers to Harry Potter and Cheers to JK Rowling!

Any Carbon footprint you left today?

Carbon footprint. I first come across it last year when my bro talking about it during dinner. I was like "wat the heck is he talking about". My curiosity did not ends there. I went online to get to know what is it about.

Yesterday while I was attending lecture, it came about again.

I again search online and find out more about it.

Do you realise that global warming is coming sooner then predicted. Do you realise that it is mostly caused by human activities *sHameFul*.

IF we do nothing!!??
Rising global temperatures will cause sea level to rise and alter local climate conditions, affecting forests, crop yields, and water supplies. It may also affect human health, animals, and many types of ecosystems. Deserts may expand and some of our countryside may be permanently altered.

There is lots of simple things that one can do! Things that might not even matter. Things that is not even worth. But bits and pieces do end up being loads!

So, you and I could prolly start by: click here

What I did is:

• Taking public transport to classes *KEkEKkE*
• Using recycle bag to market (the green bag)
• Din turn on the heater at all (it's not tat freaking cold anyway)
• Hangout cloths ( I dun like trunble dry, it wrinkles up my cloths)
• Try as much as I could to turn off electricity items that is unused
• Buy local fruits ( KeKE.. strawberries in season now)
• Eating less meat, more vege

I will definitely try to :

• Unplug mobile phone, iPod, PSP as soon as it has finished charging
• Go for a run rather than drive to the gym ( but is so far far away)
• Do your weekly shopping in a single trip ( But then the supermarket is just a block away, and I walk!!)
• Fill the kettle with only as much water as you need
• Turn down the water heating setting
• When on holiday - hire a bicycle to explore locally rather than a car
• Towels to be washed every other day, rather than every day

See.. It's just so simple to save the world. What's your carbon footprint, eh?