graduated!!

so, after 10 months, i finally graduated yesterday.. kinda ironic that i've graduated but i still have 1 more exam.. haha.. i think most people are relaxing and taking it easy already.. but i suppose i should put in my best effort cos its probably the last time i will ever study logic.. haha.. yeah.. so anyway.. graduation was a blast.. never had anything like that before.. it was cool! haha... went out for dinner with friends and had a wonderful evening / night.. haha.. i had sooooooooooooooooo much fun! it's beyond description.. but i reckon they thought i was zonked or something.. haha.. it's probably cos they've never seen me be so crazy! haha.. but it was all good fun.. never really seen that side to them either.. haha.. all in all, it was an awesome evening! thanks guys!! :)

so with the help of Wilson, i moved my stuff to my aunt's house today.. my aunt has exchanged houses with a canadian teacher who did the teacher exchange program with them.. my aunt really loves her garden and spends so much time keeping it nice and pretty.. and it always looks sooooo good! but today when i saw it..... i was speechless.. it was such as mess.. like there were weeds everywhere.. and plants were growing everywhere! gosh! my aunt is gonna be soooo upset! guys, you all have to come over for a BBQ when i get back ok??

yeah, so i'm leaving on wednesday.. i'm not really sure if i wanna go back.. wanted to go back soooo bad in feb.. but now.. it's not that i dont wanna see the people back home - it's just that i can't bear to leave. yeah, i know it's just 3 months.. but its a really long time.. that's like 12 weeks of not seeing my friends here! 12 sundays of not having service and lunch with them.. they've become like my second family.. i really love them.. they are really God's blessing to me.. i don't know what i would do without them.. i didnt really enjoy myself in Adelaide till recently after i met them.. i love you guys!! you guys light up my life! haha..

ok, enough talking.. here are the pics from yesterday.. enjoy!

aren't they just soooooooo gorgeous??? they look so pretty! i want a kimono too!!

Kyoko and me.. she took 6 hours to do her hair la! haha..

Choy tin and me.. she's so cute! she's from Viet nam..

HK Jesse and me

Marina and i.. she's from Malaysia..

Esther and i

Alvin, Tracy, me and Sam

Nobu-san and me... Japanese country side boy! haha

Yunita and I

funky!!!!

Aya and me.. she's lived all over the world..

HK Karen and I

Shirley and me.. she's from HK

Winnie and I

Dalreen and I.. she's from Sri Lanka and has a gorgeous daughter!

Kohei and I.. he's half jap and half hk..

the director of FSP - Jenny Dickson.. she's been there for over 13 years!

Lucy and I..

Best accounting teacher i've ever had - Mr Simon Tanti!

Hong Kong Alvin and I

Peter Nolans and I.. he's the advertising manager..
Georgy and me.. he's from Lebanon..

Tino - from Viet nam - and i..
me and Tracy.. she's from Guang Zhou..
Dux of FSP 2006.. to student - Emmanuel.. He's from Kenya! Rehab and I.. she's from Kuwait

Yuki and I.. she looks soooo lovely!

my clear thinking and logic teacher - Vladimir
me and Ian - the best economics teacher!
Margo and I
me and my math teacher - Richard
my grad cert


the uni rep presenting me my cert..

back in action

THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH JENN YONG! i now have my laptop back and it is in working order! thanks sooooo much for fixing it and even dropping it off at my place! :) appreciate it heaps.. :)

so, the past week without my computer was an experience.. haha.. my room was soooo quiet! but thank God for my ipod shuffle.. it's so amazing, the battery lasted me all week.. more than a week actually, cos i havent charged it for a long time.. thank God for sustaining the battery, cos if even that died out, i wouldn't have been able to survive the quietness! hehe.. anyway.. just wanna thank God for seeing me through my exams.. 3 papers down.. 3 more to go..

so, friday night i hung out with the girls.. we had sooo much fun.. i had soo much fun.. i'm really gonna miss these gals.. 3 months without them.. it's amazing how quickly you can get attached to a whole new group of people.. i'm really gonna miss Noelle.. don't go to Sydney leh babe.. haha.. but i know it's your dream to do fashion design.. wo hui yong yuan zhi chi ni!! haha.. macham some boy band concert! haha.. yeah, but seriously, i'll really miss you noelle!!! i'll miss your randomness!! miss shopping with you.. miss your grandmother stories and old wife tales! miss your fashion advice.. and i'll miss you - for all that you are.. :) aiyoh.. so mushy! haha.. neways, so we went to chocolate bean.. i got sooooo lost la! it's in some ulu lane.. so hard to find.. we laughed and laughed and talked so much nonsense! then we went photo shooting down rundell mall.. we took pics with like almost anything and everything la.. we took pics outside the shops and with the fountain and all.. we all wished that it was a chocolate fountain, instead of a water one.. haha.. so here are some pics.. need to get the rest from Chee.. we may look crazy, but we had fun! so so so so much fun! and that's the point of a girls night out! people probably thought we were nuts or drunk or something.. one guy even asked if we were tourists!! gosh! we must have seemed really odd or something.. haha.. oh well.. we had fun - thats all that matters..


the rejects of 'The Reject Shop'? nah - they're my dear friends.. :) love you guys - Erica, Chee, Leah and Katie!!

Charlie's Angels! don't mess with them!



Leah and I - Just Jeans models!


Chee and Noelle - our fellow Just Jeans models!

we're dotti flamingos.. or at least we were trying to be.. :)

p.s.: leah... come back quick.. i miss u.. and chee is leaving tomorrow.. :(
9 days till i go home.. but how bad do i really wanna go home? if only i could teleport myself every day.. then i get to be here and there.. sigh...

1st paper over!

phew! after an exhausting 4hour and 20 minute paper, i'm finally 1 paper down.. today was Language and Communication, which is basically English.. it was really good!! excellent!! haha.. as i always do, i committed the paper to God before i started, and i prayed that it would be the best essay that i have ever written.. and i think it probably was! i managed to finish on time - a miracle in itself! haha.. yeah.. so the topic was genetic engineering.. not my favourite topic in the world, but i suppose it's better than nano technology or something like that.. kinda wondering if i should have done qn 2 instead.. hmm.. oh well.. i'm satisfied with what i've done.. thank you Jesus for all your help!

tomorrow i've got economics.. that's the paper i'm most worried about.. i've still got 3 chapters to revise.. market structures, international trade and globalisation issues.. ahhh!!! stress!! oh wells.. i better go study.. have a great friday guys.. take care.. and i'm 1 day closer to going home! woo hoo!! haha.. ciao!

lost..

so, my laptop is with Jenn Yong - he's gonna fix it for me.. try to fix it at least.. if it's even fixable.. i'm praying that it is.. hehe.. thanks Jenn Yong.. :)

so.. i've been feeling so lost without my laptop.. like i dunno what to do with my time.. i realise that i'm too attached to my laptop - NO GOOD! haha.. so without it around, i have found that i do infact have a lot of time on my hands.. so what else can i do besides study.. haha.. well, i have been studying.. although i'm behind by 2 chapters at the moment, i believe i'll catch up soon enough.. thursday is my first paper - Language and Communication.. it's a 4 hour 20 min paper altogether.. sooo long! haha.. thankfully there's an hour lunch break inbetween.. friday i've got economics.. that's the one i'm most worried about.. i'll pass it, but i wanna do more than just past it.. i wanna ace it! haha.. not possible.. well, with God all things are possible! haha.. we'll see..

so anyway, today was a horrible day! most probably the worst day i've had here so far! haha.. i woke up only to find that the chicken meat i had left out to thaw had been thrown away! yes, you read right - thrown away!!
it went like this:
"where's my chicken?"
and sam was like "oh.. that's your chicken? it's in the bin.. " and he was so casual about it..
me: "WHAT?! what do you mean in the bin? who threw it away?"
sam: "oh, it was there for a few days already so the lady threw it away.."
me: "it was NOT there for a few days.. i just took it out last night!"
then the lady happened to appear.. she's the cleaner here.. well not really.. she's staying here, but working cleaning the hostel in order to pay for her rent.. then she said she threw it out cos it was there all day!
me: "no it wasn't! i only took it out last night"
she: "yes, it was sitting there in the sun all of yesterday and today.."
me: "this is unbelieveable! i took it out last night.. not yesterday afternoon.."
she: "yes you did.. it smelt funny and i didn't want you to get sick so i threw it away.."
me: "i took it out last night.. not in the day..."
i seriously felt like i was talking to the wall.. as though i didn't know when i took it out like that.. so fustrating! and it was a huge pack of meat.. and i know it wont go off overnight.. cos it takes a loooong time to defrost.. anyways... she said she'll give me the money for it.. and put $3 on the table and walked off.. i told her i didnt want her money.. so i left it there.. i was fuming mad la! she threw away a $12 pack of chicken.. which was gonna last me for a week, maybe more.. i was gonna make thai chicken and char siu out of it.. but oh wells.. plans are ruined.. gotta buy more chicken now.. i suppose i do have the reason to be angry - but that's not what God desires of me and it isn't how i should have reacted.. on reflection, my behaviour was horrible and totally out of proportion.. i normally wouldn't do that, even if i was angry i wouldn't show it like that.. must be PMS! haha.. excuse!! lol.. yeah, but i suppose i did over-react.. it's just sooo fustrating.. but then for some reason i thought of my Jie jie.. i dunno why.. i thought - what would jie do? she wouldn't react like this.. she'll be more calm about it.. but i just couldn't... and i suppose part of me didn't want to forgive her either.. so i stormed about the hostel for a while, till i couldn't stand being at home any longer - then i went to coles.. was good to get out of the house... been cooped up for sooo long.. my econs teacher reckons that stress causes people to be on a short-fuse.. i suppose its true.. but its not a valid reason.. there never should be a reason as to why we fail to show compassion and patience to someone..

i've been waiting for a transaction to go through my account and it was supposed to have gone through on the last day of october.. it's a automatic thing, so it should have gone through.. but it didn't.. it went through for the past few months, and this month as well.. so i couldn't understand why.. so i went to the bank, and they realised that there was something wrong.. so now they're gonna find out why then they'll get back to me.. hai.. waste of time.. haha..

oh wells.. i'm off to study.. tomorrow will be a better day... leaving you with this poem thingy.. don't know who it's by though.. have a great week people.. ciao!

whatever your cross
whatever your pain
there will always be sunshine
after the rain

prehaps you may stumble
prehaps even fall
but God's always there
to help you through it all

Hilton and BBQ...

so today was the final lesson that i'll ever have at Eynesbury College.. i'll really miss it, and wish that it could go on like that forever - but i have no intention of repeating next year! haha.. so after class our teacher Jeanette brought our class over to the Hilton Hotel for afternoon tea.. i had a slice of blackforest cake! yum.. haha.. so some of us went to her place for a BBQ after that.. it was so much fun.. she has so many pets! haha.. she has 3 cats and 2 dogs and frogs.. i didn't like the frogs very much though.. haha.. i really like her house so much! i like the wooden floors and cupboards.. wish houses in s'pore were like that. haha.. her house is massive! her tv room is bigger than my hostel room la! haha.. after dinner we watched a movie then got home at about 12.30am.. had to walk really far to get a cab la.. haha.. Yuki and Take were leading the way and i seriously thought that they were lost la.. haha.. Yumiko and i were just following and following and following till finally we reached King William St.. don't really have much to say - not really in a typing mood.. haha.. the rest of the pics won't upload either.. will do them later.. ciao!


i have my own brand of drink! haha.. i wish!




Lorraine and I..



Delushi and I..


the smokers of the class.. haha..

and the award for the best L&C, Psychology teacher, and tutor goes to....

JEANETTE CARTER! she's really amazing.. thanks so much for everything Jeanette.. hugs! :)

thank you all..

just wanna thanks to all who have helped me with this silly laptop of mine.. i know i've been a lot of trouble and a real pain.. Incessantly talking and asking for help with it.. i'm a total nut when it comes to com programs.. anyways.. I'm gonna SURRENDER my laptop over to God.. cos it's all under His control.. those who have read/done Purpose Driven Life will remember that day 10 talks about surrendering.. amazing lesson.. :) i'm sick and tired of blogging about my laptop, and i'm sure most of you are tired of reading about it, so no more laptop entries - at least not unless something major happens.. haha..

yeah, so Robbie's farewell dinner last night was great fun.. it was nice to sit down and enjoy a meal with a group of my hostel mates.. Robbie's moving out on sat.. :( oh well, soon enough it'll be my turn to move out.. still need to find transport to move my stuff to my aunt's place.. and no, i do NOT need a boat/ship/truck! haha.. i have a lot of stuff but not that much.. haha.. it'll fit into 1 car load - i hope.. haha.. should do la.. not really that much.. yeah, so anyway.. i'm all psyched about going home.. can't wait.. but i dont really wanna have my exams.. haha.. oh well, it's part and parcel of life; in order to move on, you've gotta cross a few roads/hurdels.. yeah, so i'm off to study.. lovely weather.. ought to be at the beach.. haha.. the balcony will do just fine i suppose.. ;) okie.. have a great thursday peeps.. the week is almost over! woo hoo!! take care.. love you all! hugs..


my massive bowl of noodles.. that i finished! haha.. i don't believe in wasting food.. :)


the group.. :)

not so virus free after all! :(

ok.. so my laptop is still not yet virus free.. the anti-virus seems to be working.. it makes this horrible wailing noise every time it detects a virus.. which seems to be everytime i open a file, folder or webpage.. my internet is screwed up too.. everytime i open internet explorer, like 4 or 5 different pages come up.. then the virus warning thing starts howling again.. then i try to remove/delete the virus, but it wont work.. it wont delete.. it says the file is in use.. so i close all my windows and try to delete the virus.. but still it wont budge.. so the alert system just keeps alerting me that a virus is there.. then sometimes when i actually manage to delete it, another one appears, followed by another and another.. oh, and did i mention that it takes an amazing amount of effort to open my msn.. i have to authorise it like 2-3 times, then it signs in, then the virus alert rings again.. it's getting to be quite a chore to use my laptop thanks to the virus.. seriously considering sending it to the shop for repair.. but have no idea where to go.. besides, i suppose i could train myself to live without my laptop for a while and get it fixed when i get back.. right? well... yes, i suppose since exams are soooo near, i should be able to do more study without the constant attraction to the laptop..... but... i'm addicted to my laptop! haha.. besides, it's my means of communication with my family and friends back home.. like, how else can i afford to talk to them for hours each day if not for skype.. i don't have a house phone, and using a mobile to call home is ridiculous! it costs like over a dollar a minute.. madness.. haha.. thank God for skype.. yuppers.. so i guess i won't be seeing people online for a while.. i'm praying my computer get better soon.. will still try to update my blog as regularly as possible.. in the meantime, e-mail, sms or skype me ok? thanks and sorry for the inconvenience peeps.. take care.. have a great week.. love ya all!! God bless..:)

p.s.: dear God, please fix or send someone to help me fix me laptop.. in Jesus name i pray, Amen.. :)

virus.. :(

hey guys, i havent been online for the past 2 days or so cos my com was hit by a virus.. i opened a link from my friend and BOOM! that was it.. my msn went haywire.. and it started sending the link to people in my contact list.. i tried to close it as fast as i could.. sorry if it got to any of you.. :) so, with the help of a friend i managed to get it under control.. i think.. haha.. i'm praying its fine.. cos otherwise it just gets problematic.. yuppers..

so, the Christmas parade thingy on sat was interesting.. haha.. company was great, parade was ok.. lol.. nothing much for us adults, more for the kids i suppose.. but yeah, so after the parade the girls wanted to go to the saturday morning market at rundell street.. it was pretty cool.. nice stuff, but quite expensive.. didn't get anything.. then Ing was hungry, so we went for Italian food.. yums! then off we went shopping!! oh, erm, lets see who was at the parade.. Noelle, Ing, Delia, Choo Ting, Woan Yi.. Woan yi had to work, so she didn't go shopping with us.. but after lunch Noelle and Delia went off.. so left Ing, Choo Ting and me.. so we went shopping for dresses! hehe.. i'm soooo in love with dresses.. they're the absolute best la! i've been packing to go home, and i've packed as little pants as possible.. no jeans at all! haha.. wanna wear skirts and dresses only!! (don't get excited guys, i'm not coming back yet.. just packing in advance.. haha.. you'll see me when you see me.. lol..) yeah, so Ing bought a lovely yellow dress, and 2 tops.. Choo ting got a balero, and i got a lovely floral dress.. love it to bits! hehe.. tried on soo many, but fianlly settled on that.. almost got a kimono styled one, but prefered the floral one instead.. Ing was laughing at me la.. she was like "just now at that shop you liked that dress so much, then now you try on this you've forgotten all about the other one in that shop!" haha.. it was funny la! but i'm satisfied with my purchase.. that's it.. no more shopping! haha.. at least no more big items.. haha.. it was really nice to hang out with Ing and Choo Ting.. Ing is amazing.. she really is.. Wilson, you're a very fortunate guy... :)

ok, sunday church was amazing.. Allen Meyer was the speaker.. he's awesome, and the message was good.. met a new girl.. Eve is her name if i'm not wrong.. sorry if it's spelt wrong.. have a feeling it is.. hehe.. oh well, she's from perth.. she's actually malaysian, but moved to perth when she was 3.. she's a vet, and she's gonna be here for another 2 years.. she's really nice.. can't wait to get to know her better.. :)

yups.. so my psychology test today was pretty good.. just a practice test, but think i'll do all right.. thank God.. :) God is so so so so good.. and amazingand He never fails to amaze me.. :)

i'm off to study.. girls, any of you have hair curlers? the metal thongs thingy, or whatever they're called? can lend me? i wanna curl my hair for graduation.. and my curlers are in s'pore.. :( thanks..

have a blessed week people... and to all those who are having exams, both back home and here, ALL THE BEST.. God will see you thru.. :) take care.. ciao!

last day of school.. sorta..

ok, so technically today was the last day of school for me.. but i've still got 2 more psychology classes next week and then that's it.. reflecting back, the past 9 months have flown by.. i really enjoyed myself here, and i'm now learning to live life to the fullest, and to stop living for the moment and to start living for eternity! God has been sooooo real to me in the past week.. He's been speaking to me about so many different things, with a new word for me everyday.. just to share with you about my devotion from yesterday.. 2 Cor 4:18 says "the things that we see now are here today, gone tomorrow. But the things we can't see now will last forever." How true is that.. :) Do you sometimes get the feeling that you just don't feel satisfied with your life, no matter how much you achieve? well, it's because we were made for more than just life on earth! and at death you wont leave home - you'll go home.. we'll be going home to an eternal home, which leads me to something else God has been talking to me about.. i was talking to Melvin, my cell group leader in s'pore, and i felt so much joy as i shared with him what God was doing in my life.. but all that i could tell him was just the tip of the ice-berg! there are no words to express what i'm feeling.. i can't wait to go home and share with the SHINERS about God's grace and mercy in my life.. for i've tasted and seen of God's goodness, and i don't ever wanna lose this feeling.. instead, i want to fall deeper and deeper in love with Him.. :) messages from friends and sermon scriptures are confirming what the Lord has been speaking to me about! awww! it's just sooo exciting!! some people may think that i'm being "holy" and all, but you know what, I was made to worship and glorify His name! i was made for His purpose! and i want to be a Mary in a world of Martha's.. haha.. that's the title of a book i saw at Koorong.. think i'll go back and get it tmr.. hehe..

anyway, ISM was great again.. it's so good to just step aside from our daily lives and just spend time worshipping Him.. the fellowship was great, and the sharing was enlightening.. what Wilson shared is so so so true.. am i a Mary or a Judias? we should be giving out of gratefulness for what the Lord has done in our lives, and not because we expect to recieve a blessing out of it. yes, it's true that the Lord will bless us for giving, but that shouldn't be our main reason for giving. it's true, for me at least - i won't speak for others - that sometimes i find it hard to give freely. sometimes i think of what other things i can do with the money instead. but you know what? all that we have is given to us from God. it's His. it was never ours to begin with anyway. besides, what are our mere "sacrifices" of our finances, when God made the biggest sacrifice of all - sending His one and only son to die for us; for our sins. how much more is that than our finances?

oh wellys.. tmr morning i'm going to the christmas festival parade thingy with Lok Ing and Noelle.. can't wait to spend time with the girls.. hehe.. i'm sure it'll be an awesome time.. hehe.. might go back to Koorong after that to get another book.. hehe.. there's 20% sale, and i got 1 book today; it's on cancer, so i thought my mum could use it for her patients, or else i might give it to my uncle.. yeah.. so i'm off.. here are some pics.. have a great weekend people.. love you all heaps! hugs and kisses..


my Language and communications class..


the view from one of my classrooms..


Yuki, me, my teacher Jeanette, and Takeshi.. we had coffee at Central Market today..

last day of October

i was so disappointed that i didn't have anything to blog about or any pics to post yesterday, that i made sure i took some pics today.. haha.. school was good today.. but it's kinda sad that school's almost over.. the year has really flown by, it feels like i just started school last month la! and like in a month i'm going home.. can't believe it! haha.. 16 days till exams, what am i doing here blogging?? my gosh!! haha.. i wanna have a BBQ, but so far only Noelle wants to come.. how can only 2 people have BBQ la? haha.. have a great week people.. love!!


My australian studies teacher Nic and I.. he's really cute.. hehe..


along carrington street - the street i live on.. so pretty right?