The Journey of Dodo and Me

Hehe~ Hello Dodo aka xiao didi/ xiao mei mei!!
I'm pretty sure you will be shocked to see this heading right..

*Surprise Surprise*

Oh well~ This is the least I can do for you, since I can't be there to celebrate for u ^^
How I wish my exam could end earlier..jz 2 days earlier would be sufficient for me to fly back n Tada! appear in front of u. LoL

Before we proceed, I've something for your..
Please accept the honour of Most Loyal Dolph's World Blog Supporter award!!~
Haha~Thanks for visiting my blog so often..u r the one who always give the 1st comment or feedback on my posts. THANK YOU!!~

It is merely a year plus that we become friends, previously was simply knowing ur existence but never talk. =X
N stop proclaiming I'm a block of ice kay *slap slap*
At least I do know ur existence ever since Year 1 -- Dynamics project, ur group was the 1st one to try out the Carrefour toy car..after that a few groups attempted with the exact same car too! Hahax..perhaps ur sos is more low profile, or even 毫不起眼..=D

Fast forward from 1st year to 3rd year..
Certainly, coming to Melbourne has enabled us to get to know each other more, and now you have become like a lil brother to me..^^

Let me recall...hmm...

The very 1st visit to Bettina was when ur household threw this 'End of Mid Sem Break Party'

But that has not yet brought us close together..
The major contributing factor that drew us closer was the 'Curry Chicken Night'..credit to Bing =)
The content was strictly between Bettina-ians and Morton-ians LoL

Including some sentimental values...... I guess we will never forget this night, it marked a beginning towards our closer friendship

Following that, we have numerous dinners and birthday parties together..


N even lantern festival celebration..
New song was composed ♫♪♫Kha Liang yuan, Kha Liang yuan~♫♪♫


Not to forget your 21st birthday~


The ooVoo chit chat sessions


Ballarat, Grampians, Malacca, KL food trip..
Never would we know that our bond of friendship would be strengthen like how we are today..
Sometimes I wish that I could turn back time to savor all the happy moments together and it's even better if all of you are still in Melbourne..=D
This is life~ Absence does make the heart grows fonder..
Hence, we will be more anticipating and appreciative of the time we could meet and spend together..which will be very very soon *Wink*

Can't wait to see u all...

To meet up with the new DSLR photographer *high five 500D*


To spend fun, silly and crazy moments together..


To embark on our Cuti-cuti or Makan-makan Malaysia journey


Wait for me k, don't "tau jiak" 偷吃!


Attention!!~ BE READY!!!! 'm coming back to claim ur promise -- "go to apa sai places and outings e.g. sing k
LONG ZHONG sapu ka liao"

Haha~ That's about it.
Time for you to switch to standby mode n come up with all the creative, innovative dreams..=D


Lastly, wishing you a wonderful and blessed birthday (=
Selamat Hari Jadi~ Sang yat fai lok~ 生日快乐~ Seh jit huah hee~
又长大一岁了，要生生性性 sang sang seng seng ok?
HApPy BIrThDaY!
-XOXO-

Sign off with all-time-famous -- Keat Ming's pose


P/S: While browsing the photos, just realise that none of the proper photo captured is only the two of us. Haha~ The time will come ^^

New Aussie Prime Minister

If you think that World Cup is the hottest news in the paper now..
If you think that England got into the 2nd round is a big hot news..
If you are excited with the beginning of Wimbledon match..
I shall provide you with another piece of shocking news @@

O.O A new Prime Minister has been born in Australia!
The new Prime Minister is a SHE!
She is officially the 27th Aus Prime Minister on 24th June, 2010.
She is the Australia's first female Prime Minister!!
---> Julia Gillard

Oh well, since I didnt follow up what has happened and all.
If you want to know more, you can simply Google it!~

*shameful*
Living in this country but do not pay any attention to its political movement.

Sigh~ *hide my face*
I don't like reading.
But this could not be the excuse for me not to be concern about the operation throughout national and international region.
Must learn to be slightly more aware of what's happening around us.

前途

好多想法
什么是可行的？
什么是合适的？

人家总会给于毕业生一些祝福语，像“前程似锦”、“光芒的前途” 等等。
可是，怎样的前途才是光明的？
又要如何闯出一番成就呢？

Another semester n I'll be done with my degree.
Honestly speaking, I'm clueless about the future career.
I do not know where I should be, what job to take or even whether I will be getting a job with the current high jobless rate in the society.
I guess I have ignored the option to further study or obtaining a PhD qualification.
My head would certainly be experiencing permanent damaged if I choose to continue somehow.

Some might think that I worry too much.
But, seriously, it is time to start thinking.
To be successful, I believe 90% of hard work and 10% of luck are essential. This theory is only applicable for normal people with the same IQ level like me, not applicable for genius.




前途茫然者 笔

Have we ever crossed path?

Was supposed to resume my engine to study for the last paper today after 2 days of rest.

Well, I did read okay :/
But my progress was only 1 lecture ++ up to now. *Bravo bravo* =.=!

I'm feeling so rejoiced tonight..
To find out how amazing people are connected and friendships are made.

Not sure if you ever aware of this:
In the same frame of life...
在同一个生活包厢内，许多的人生故事在同时上演着。
或许，你其实就出现在某某人的生活当中；只是你从未察觉或停下脚步回头看看跟你擦肩而过的人与事。

Strangers today might be friends tomorrow.
You might not keep in touch forever with all your friends you have today.
But each and everyone of them does make a difference in your life.

Before tonight, I only knew about reminiscence of good old times with old buddies.
However, tonight I learn about reliving the past with people you called them strangers sometimes ago and now friends. You have been through the same thing and have gone to the same place at the same time. And now you can exchange stories of what have happened at each other end upon the same frame of life.

Isn't it amazing how people cross path and only those who stop by, spend time together would become buddies?

This affectionate post was triggered by my friend, who randomly went to read my older blog posts.
Quoted from KM:

"It gives me a feeling as if i just went into someone's old store room and started to dig out pictures and old stuff..old and dusty, yet memorable.""

Full of imagination, but very well said. (=

Of 1st Paper and Fun

4th year Sem 1 exam progress: 50% completed.

That 1st paper was quite a combination of easy+hard.
We have 4 lecturers teaching this subject. I'm sorry to say this, the management lecturer (who is a CEO) was really lazy. Haha. 80% of the questions were exactly the same as pass year. But this only contributed like 30% of the paper.
I wish I did not spend so much time on memorising.
Again, I would be very regretful if I did not do my best.
Humans! Always contradicting themselves!!

However, the engineering economy part was quite a killer of the paper, especially the true false questions. There were 20 T/F in total. Perhaps u might think tat must be very easy.
It is easy if the question is as simple as "World Cup is conducted every 4 years. T/F?"
It is twisting here and there, and I ended up with a lot of 'False' answers because I think the lecturer is cunning @@
I would rather Eugene gave us more numerical problems to compensate this true false section.
Thankfully that I saved the true/false section for the last. Time management during exam is very important. Luckily I don't follow the sequence. Others who are stuck at the true/false did not have enough time for the other sections.

Whether I did well or not, I've no idea.
Everyone has been saying that this subject is a minimum of Distinction.
I'm a bit more greedy, I wish for a HD. *hmmm..*

I hardly slept the night before the exam. Only had 1.5 hr of sleep.
But it feels so good when you know you have tried your best.
Hopefully I can maintain the good form for the 2nd/last paper in 10 days time.

Right after the exam, we 'chiong' to Mt Dandenong!
Haha..I know, this is C-R-A-Z-Y!~
My body was telling me to sleep, but my heart says GO~ LoL

Well, me n Jun have been planning to go Mt Dandenong to take photos ever since the start of the semester..We thought we will hv the time to go since the timetable is quite empty, but who knows the research has taken us so much time.
Whenever it is sunny, we need to go lab; n cloudy/rain when we have a bit of time to spare. :(
N the weather looked good after the paper...so we decided to go despite the tiredness (with my 1.5 hr sleep T_T)
The other reason is to tempt the housemate who has gone back to Msia, she wanted to go Mt Dande too XD
Winter season n mountain top. It's enough said that the temperature is gonna be low low low.
It's freaking cold. Haha. The weather was still good when we arrived. But it got cloudier n more windy after our lunch. *frown n frozen* Dont get to see the skyline of Melbie.

This is what they called The Skyline of Melbourne

becoz the city of Melb is floating among other region lands.

(This picture was taken with my noob Sony digital cam during my 1st visit to Mt Dande last year October.)

However, it was really fun spontaneous outing.
Of course, the participants have contributed the major factor to the FUN ^^

Hope to go Mt Dande with a nice, sunny weather again :))

The gay couple with good food:P

Hui^2 and Chyi's 1st visit to Mt Dande, n my 1st visit to Ms Maple's Tea Room *love*

Ended my day with a 5-hr of nap.
Pardon me with my deep sh*t sleeping time. =X

Destructive wind

It was super duper windy last night, causing chaos around Victoria region.

From one of the weather forecast online,

Warning Summary at issue time - Severe weather warning for destructive winds for the Central forecast district.

Forecast for the rest of Thursday - Cloudy. Scattered showers. The chance of thunderstorms from the late morning. Winds northwesterly averaging 50 to 65 km/h tending westerly up to 50 km/h during the morning then tending west to northwesterly 25 to 35 km/h later in the evening.

According to my friends, some places had power outage due to fallen trees etc etc.
The power of Destructive wind @@.
Indeed, the strong wind over here is no joke.
Still remember there was once, I could barely walk in the wind even though I've tried so hard to move forward. It would be funny to look at me because I was as though stepping at the origin point. In fact I was guessing if I stop 'walking forward', I might be blown away or fell onto the ground. huhu~

Last night, I could hear the wind blow strongly n clearly as though I'm outside the house. No joke!
Usually we have rain in Malaysia; one thing distinctive over here is that rain doesnt fall often. But once it is triggered, it becomes a thunderstorm.
You no longer hear rain dropping, but hails attacking the earth.

Listening to Red Jumpsuit Apparatus songs
This verse kinda hit me instead of the chorus.
"I will never let you fall
I'll stand up with you forever
I'll be there for you through it all
Even if saving you sends me to heaven"

Are you my Guardian Angel?

~直到清晨6时，陪伴我的只有狂风暴雨（冰雹）~

Old vs young

Something that lighten up my day.

When I was collecting my assignment from the ChemEng General Office,
"So your surname is Mei?"
{Nope, Chew.}
"And you are from 2nd year or 3rd year?"
{4th year}
"You dont look like 4th year. You look young!"
{*giggle*}

LOL. I actually felt damn old nowadays. I was born in February. Even though age wise I'm the same with the rest, but whenever someone's bday notification pops up on FB, I'd feel like my bday was a long time ago. =.=

I guess it is because of my size that people tend to think that I'm young? N it is not because of my look. Haha~ But that line still made my day ^^




Stess level increasing..2 more days to my 1st paper..T_T

Me Want Go Home

My current PM on msn is "我要回家。马上立刻即时"
N I really wish so.

2 more weeks to be home.
Do you think it's very soon? But, I think otherwise.
It is a bad idea to keep counting the days, because it only minus 1 for each passing day. Whereas if you dont count, then you will be more excited to find out that the days to be home are drawing closer than u expect.
Don't know what theory is this.

Congrates to those Chem Eng students who have completed their finals for this semester.
So demotivating larh~
They have finished exams before I've even started my 1st paper.
In addition, Sia (my housemate) is flying home tomorrow
NOOooooooo~ I dont like the idea of finishing the exams late..especially when I really keen of going back Msia.
Why?!! Why set my exams to end so late?
What other kept telling me: "Think positively, you have more time to prepare, not so rush..etc etc"
But not like I'm making full use of the time to study. *guilty*
If I were to choose, I really dont mind to hv a rush timetable this round in order to go home earlier n for a longer period.

Sigh. Things wont just go according to how you wish for sometimes.
Perhaps, God wants to teach me to be patience.
Alright. I should stop complaining before getting scolded by those that don't get to go home.
Please be contented 知足常乐

Side track no. 1:
Btw, all the best for Sunway Mechatronics students 1st paper tomorrow.
Dodo, if you ever read this, haha..remember to study hard and grab HD in order to fulfill scandal =D

Side track no. 2:
Just completed Gossip Girl Season 2. LoL I know I'm slow. Have been watching Taiwan series lately. Downloading Season 3 now. Will try to catch up before Season 4 is released. :D

Jay Chou

Tonight, repeatedly playing Jay Chou's songs on my iTunes playlist, not all of his songs, but just the recent few albums.
No idea why I jz dragged his songs into the playlist.
A lot of things are not explain-able I guess.
I always have this problem with Jay Chou's songs, in which I would not like his songs when I just listen to it for the 1st few times. In fact, I felt uninterested or even annoyed by his songs.
However, after listening for Nth time, I will sort of love it.

Haha. This leads me thinking about how I treat others things in life. Somehow true and applicable.
Things that I <3 at 1st sight would not last, but I will treasure more on things that I started to like it after disliking for awhile.
Such a random fact about me. =D

＊久未放晴的天空
　依舊留著妳的笑容
　哭過　卻無法掩埋歉疚

　風箏在陰天擱淺
　想念還在等待救援
　我拉著線　複習妳給的溫柔

　曝曬在一旁的寂寞
　笑我給不起承諾
　怎麼會怎麼會　妳竟原諒了我＊

＃我只能永遠讀著對白
　讀著我給妳的傷害
　我原諒不了我
　就請妳當作我已不在

　我睜開雙眼　看著空白
　忘記妳對我的期待
　讀完了依賴　我很快就離開＃

Was very touched by this song tonight. Even though I dont feel much connected with the lyrics.

口是心非

"开玩笑"的背后，多少有些许事实；
"不知道"的背后，多少有些许想法；
"不管了"的背后，多少有些许在乎；
"没关系"的背后，多少有些许失落。

Quoted this from Cheryl's FB status.
Find it quite applicable..perhaps that's why ppl always say gals are 口是心非。

But, do you know that: sometimes it is best we don't tell direct answers, because situation doesnt allow us to?

World Cup 2010

FIFA World Cup 2010 has started..
Many people around the world especially footie fans are extremely excited about this 4years-once event.

Manage to watch the opening at Uni computer lab last night..haha..so cool..never know uni has such cool facility..
But then nothing fascinating about the opening..
Some football fans claimed that the opening is jz an indicator for the start for the world cup season, it is not a movie or film..LOL
Too bad~ I really don't enjoy football matches..
But I do find Namewee's new song interesting..
"放半粒 handicapped goal" - Youtube it if you havent watched it.
According to KM, "This time the video is shot with presentable ladies, no more 'a gua'"
Haha~Good observation!

Came across this real cool World Cup calendar

Now everything has been worldcup-revolutionized..almost all the advertisement would include world cup merchandise as promotion..

World cup fever vs exam period.
Luckily it doesnt concern me..on the bright side, the study environment in uni has turned better..all the bola kaki would be camping at somewhere with large screen i pressume.. :)
There are even friends that bought large plasma tv for World Cup..
How insane is that?!

Time to study =X

Just realise my blog posts hit 300 for the previous post. *Dancing happily*
But I doubt I've posted all 300..some are still in draft mode, which I cannot be bothered =X

Yesterday was a mixture of HaPpInEsS + GuIlTiNeSs..
Yesterday was the 1st day of the start of Monash Sem 1 2010 exam period.
But that doesnt concern me, cz my 1st paper has 1 more week to go.
N guess what? I'm still pretty relax..not stressing about the finals yet.
WORSE still, went out for the whole day until late night with friends, had fun like exams are over. *tsk tsk* So terrible.
Lord of Fries with Indian sauce *slurp slurp* Bought it before the shop closed :P

can you feel (see) the love on Dr.Goh's face? Haha..it is the natural shadow by the way.

My long awaited egg tartttt...*Satisfaction*

Actually, it is the Light In The Winter event brought us to the city. However I've no idea how the calculation thingy work..I did try to understand, but give up somehow =.= More of like jz having fun taking pictures with the imitated sun which you can see from afar in the city..Hee~
Chyi:"The sun is in my hand!" LOL

Freddoooooooo in winter ^^ Thanks lotz to our Mr. driver aka Mr. photographer. Despite that u r tired, but u still keep ur promise n go with us. Appreciate it!

After home, had an awesome 'yum char' session with some cute friends.
Just that I was not present at the scene.
N the internet line wasnt really smooth..but oh well, it really put a big smile on me for the night. Miss u people so much..can't wait to join in the talk for real~~

That's why I'm filled with guilt now..even though I still feel happy. @@
I'm so gonna be blaming myself if i didnt do well for the finals in which I should hv plenty time to prepare. *Grrrr*

Enough of fun and play time.
I MUST Start My Study tomorrow (as in today)

Bla bla bla~

Just had a short talk with mum.
Glad that my lost Hotlink sim card problem will be solved once I got home ^^
Have been frantically searching for it for couple of times..turning the room inside out..it just doesnt appear..
*sigh* Forget about it..don't want to spend time looking for it anymore.
At least it is a good news that my number can still be retained :)

Mummy being Mummy...She is my best listener and advisor..
I was motivated after talking to her..thank you mummy <3
I was all lazy ever since the last lecture was done for this semester last Tuesday.
Taking my own sweet time to finish up the final year report..Oh yea! Did I mention we manage to get a 1-week extension for it? Dr. Raman is not as scary as I've in mind after all..hehe

{How's your report going? Have you started to prepare for your finals?}
"Still doing lorh..exam a...still quite long to go...haven't started.."
{When is it? 18th right? Do you realise that u only hv 10 more days??}
"Opps~~"

Haha..I think I'm someone who couldn't be really independent..
I need someone to constantly remind me about my priority which a convincing way..
Used to think that mum is very nag-gy..felt irritated most of the time when I was back home..LOL..but without the reminder, I'll probably slack all the way =X
N I started to realise myself nagging others as well..haha..I've inherited her nag-gy gene XD

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Chit chat with veggie dear yesterday..It's by far the few chats with her, whereby both of us are stress-free..
It's always either me or she fully loaded with academic stress..

The chat sort of making me to think about life after studies..
Really don't wanna imagine my life if i were to stay in Aus n work..
I'll have to sacrifice all the heart-warming chatting n fun outing with the people I love..Is it really worth it? I've higher pay, more money...n so what?
.........Alright, I'll have to stop rambling..need to get the report done hopefully by today if not someone is going to pour in the complains...T_T



Can't wait to go back to see all you people!!~


Can I just skip the report, exams etc n get home soon???

Good Sleep

Had a good 12-hour sleep last night =)
I simply love sleeping <3
It's a torture previously that I've to stay up late in the research lab n wake up early in the morning going back to the lab.
Thank God that torment has ended.
But cannot be too happy, because the scary design project has yet to come..
Shall just enjoy for the time being ^^

Perhaps it's the good sleep that has brought me positive feelings since I got up.
Somehow I woke up with a clear thought that I decided to go home after graduation.
Hmmm...I was quite firm at that moment, but not now.
But I still rmb how it felt when I sort of thought that I've made up my mind.
I felt satisfied n was relieved.

This thought might be due to me missing home too much.
So I shall not prompt to this decision for now.
But I know life would definitely be easier if i just go back.

How I wish I can foresee my future with both paths..then I dont have to struggle deciding..
Oh well~Life is not a bed of roses..
Hope I will be able to fully experience the relief-ness that I'd obtain after decision is made.

Have a great Sunday peeps!

梦想

好久没看星光大道了~
之前都只是追看到第5届的前半段，第6届更不必说，只是偶尔看到一些被转放到FB的片断而已。
从ch那里得知有关超级星光大道展开了新的一个比赛--《星光传奇赛》
基本上呢，这是一个比较大型的复活赛，号召之前失败了的参赛者（没有得到冠军头衔的）回来重返在舞台上的荣耀。

可想而知，事隔一段日子，要再度站上星光的舞台，是需要鼓起多么庞大的勇气。
比赛结束后，每个人都得回到自己的生活里。 尽管过着不同的生活，每个人的背后都有不一样的故事，但却拥有对歌唱一样的热忱。

看着看着，心里的感触真的，良多。
不知不觉， 距离第一届的星光班已经有3年了。
荧幕里的他们，不一样了。有些长高了，有些变漂亮了（牙套被拿掉），有些进步了，有些甚至像是专业的歌手了。
转大人的谢震廷--有方大同的感觉


曾经蛮喜欢的魏如昀。喜欢她，因为很有个性。这次回来，要加油哦！

看见他们的成长，再想想自己这3年来是怎么过的。。。
突然觉得，我好像很不堪，我好像在蹉跎岁月。

开始在想我的梦想呢?
开始在羡慕那些有梦想的人，与那种为梦想努力坚持的心情。
人就只有一生的时间。
我的人生好像还真的好无聊。
从什么时候开始，我就已经不再有梦？不再去想什么理想不理想的事情？
是不是 ’不可能‘ 抹杀了我的想法呢？
好像有一种感觉，我在活着别人希望我过的人生。
太过在意别人的眼光、感受，导致现在的我，看不到了我的兴趣、志向在哪。

人因梦想而伟大

你的梦想又是什么呢？

FYP Research Presentation

Research presentation on Monday was over..
Upset with it because it has been done badly..
Well, you may think that this yimei is underestimating herself again~
But this is really no joke. I was all trembling and nervous since I woke up.
Mind you, I had only like <1.5hr of sleep that night..only got contact with our lab demo, Ruby at 10pm and understood the results slightly more by 11pm..my presentation slides were only done by 3AM. Everything is like so last minute..*sigh*
I hv handled the part to work with stress, but not to present under inner-tension.

If you ever realize, I always got very nervous with presentation.not very but VERY VERY nervous!!
That's why I am not studying commerce..I cannot imagine if I've to do numerous presentations within a week..
Someone just told me that all you need to do is to present more then..although this seems like the last ever option that you would consider..
"Conquer the fear, if not fear will conquer you."
It's easy to say it, but not easy to turn that into action.

At this point, I cannot do anything to change the damage done for the presentation.
But probably to improve myself..to speak in public..this is really sth that I dislike most, but at the same time envious at those with high level of confident..
It wasn't that bad when i was doing it alone, but on the very moment words coming out from my mouth were not linked to my brain..I ended up reading the notes that I've prepared in a very fast pace..until everyone could feel my nervous aroma n knew that I cant wait to finish it asap..SO TERRIBLE!! *RAWR*
Thinking back the scene, really hate myself for being so nervous..FOR WHAT??!
Not like the examiner or the audience is gonna eat you up..=.=!! Why you have to be so nervous???!!
Since the presentation is sooooo important, should have been more steady, or act steady..Can someone teach me how to remove the panic button? 30% is a very huge amount, it can make a lot of difference in terms of whether a yes or no for my 1st honour title..*kiss goodbye* to my 1st honour T_T

Okay~ this would be the very last time for me to be all grumpy about the presentation. Hope I didnt cause anyone of u to feel sick of talking to me.
Thanks for all the encouraging prayers and wishes. But I'm sorry with the disappointing failed outcome.

And Jun, dont forget about the building 75 coffee is on you, definitely!!

Me Chyi Rene Jun

Housemates!(3 out of 4 are ChemEng)


A million thousand dollar worth photo..taken with our supervisor(a famous researcher in nanomaterials)

P/S: It's a relief after talking to Dr Huanting today. The conversation is sort of P&C due to some issue. Basically just got to know that our lab results are considered quite good. He wasn't really expecting much from few weeks of work. =D