Haih, I wanna top up my credit.

I wanna change to the Optus Better & More Free Calls rate plan or sth like that.

Hell do I need that.

But I need to call Customer Care.

And with 2 cents left, I can't do anything. Not even msg anyone. And no it doesn't cost us 1 cent to msg. Its 25 Aussie cents if I'm not wrong. That's only like smsses to Australia summore.. Equals to around RM0.70. OMG I can buy a roti canai with one sms I send!

Why are the freaking calls in Australia so expensive ?

Sigh, actually have to borrow someone else's phone to make the call.

Exam pressure is on now, should blog less.

But will be back in a flash cuz I wanna blog bout the Royal Easter Show at Sydney Olympic Park, the Relay for Life (the run and its tmr.?!) sigh dunno whether I'm fit enough anot. I haven''t even warmed up or nething yettt.

Hmmmmm- LALA.

So random u can't even imagine., This is what exams does to you.

OMG, I don't even know how to get to the racecourse!!! How la HOW??

India is so far away : Wilson leaves..

I've decided to post this for two reasons :

For one, my camwhore classmate slash prom king nominee slash Wilson Wong Chau Shen is flying off. So old di yea?

What am I talking about? I'm here meself, oh wellll.

Secondly, I don't know anyone else who flies to India. SO this post is special. Feel special! Hehe.

So shocked! flight is in 3 hrs. And ur prob at KLIA checking in and waiting already :s. So fast.

Time really flies. It was just a year ago I got to know him.

Nice fella. And to think all those times we were thinking of doing business/commerce when we were in a pure science stream with evry1 else doing health/biomed courses. I guess we know what you're doing now, branching off into dentistry.:)

Yay! I have someone offering to cabut my gigi FOC!!! You said WAN ah, don't forget!! :P

Be sure not to catch diarrhoea in India as well. The food's really spicy :) Not like I've been there, but apparently Indian food is pretty HOT, so country of origin : you do the math :p

Gonna miss you,

take care, and have a safe flight.

I'll see u when we have our reunion and bbq once again! :) I hope that this time the fire doesn't take AS long to start again. LOL. and i wanna go down to seremban cuz I've never been there before as well!!

I wonder why Shereen, you, and I never get much work done in the library.

considering...

we're all so hardworking and really dedicated to our work,,..

not TOO focused on other activities like camwhoring for instance :)
(lols, Shereen's face cracks me up xD)

hah, I wonder why...:-)

btw I have so many other other pics but blogger can only upload so few for some reason.

well looks like its just gonna be that, for now :)

Tataz and all the best,

from me and evbd else in G3 :)

Photo update as requested by Dwayne :

they wanted to be superheroes in their past lives but never quite got a chance..

I have a feeling i've posted this pic before but oh wells. Mr. Ng gets bored of writing in the front board and shifts to use the one at the back. Result : turned backs and complains..
...SIR ARRR!

haih, i remembered we took every opportunity on the last day of college to take pics and camwhore :) even while waiting for lecturers

The 4 that always hang out together ..

yea and so we do take every chance to take pics lol.

Accorde Moi : Leslie ft Bobby Valentino

Loved this song the moment I heard it.:)

Its half French obviously cuz Leslie is singing. Tried to understand the song but didn't do it too well cuz' my French is not THAT up to standard. :S. Understood some parts, misinterpreted some as well lols. Here is the clip and the lyrics anyway. The translation a lil the broken England yea, but conveys the meaning somewhat.Enjoy. xD

[Intro]
[Bobby V.] :
Yeah, This is for those broken hearts... (C'est pour tous ces coeurs brisés...)
Valentino, Leslie, From the Atlanta. (Valentino, Leslie, d'Atlanta)
[Leslie] :
Candy smoothness. (La douceur d'un bonbon)
[Bobby V.] :
All the way from France. (Jusqu'en France)

[1st Part]
[Leslie] :
J'ai commis pour toi bien trop d'erreurs, (I made too many mistakes for you)
Plus qu'il n'en faut, (More than I had to)
Pourtant je respecte, (Though I respect)
Je crois chacun de tes mots. (I believe each of your words)
[Bobby V.] :
Looking at a picture, (Je regarde une photo)
reminicing all the good times. (Sa me rapelle tous nos bons souvenirs)
I'm tired of arguing, (J'en peux plus de nos enguelades,)
I don't wanna fight, No. (Je ne veux plus me battre, non.)
[Leslie] :
Pourquoi perdre tant de temps (Why losing so much time)
Car au fond tu as toujours su ce que je ressent. (Because in really you always knew how I feel)
[Bobby V.] :
Even thow you did me wrong, (Même si tu m'as fait du mal,)
You're the only one for me. ( Tu es la seule pour moi.)
I wanna take you back, (Je veux te récupérer,)
But it's so hard for me. (Mais c'est difficile pour moi)

[Refrain]
[Leslie] :
Accorde moi cette dernière danse, (Allow me this last dance)
Juste une dernière chance de retarder ton départ. (Just a last chance to delay your departure.)
Accorde moi bien plus de temps, (Allow me more time,)
Ma vie en depend sans toi je perdrais deja (ma vie). (My life is depending of it without you I would already lose (my life))
[Bobby V.] :
Can't take no more, (Je ne peux pas en supporter plus,)
Can't take no more. (Je ne peux pas en supporter plus.)

[2nd Part]
[Leslie] :
Tu passera tout ce que j'ai batti, Tout une vie (You will spend all I have built, A whole life)
Pourquoi m'avoir dit de si belles choses et me forcer à oublier. (Why did you tell me so beautiful things to force me to forget.)
[Bobby V.] :
I guess you realize, Girl how hard I tried (Je devine que tu as du comprendre à quel point j'ai essayé)
Because no man is gonna treat you like I do (Parce qu'aucun autre homme te traitera comme je l'ai fais)
[Leslie] :
Et t'avoir prouvé tout mon désespoir (And to have proved you all my despair)
Je préfère y croire (I prefer to believe in it)
J'ai tant besoin de toi (I need you so much)

[Refrain]
[Leslie] :
Accorde moi cette dernière danse, (Allow me this last dance)
Juste une dernière chance de retarder ton départ. (Just a last chance to delay your departure.)
[Bobby V.] :
Baby I can take another day, coz I wanna stay, (Bébé je peux prendre un jour de plus, parce que je veux rester,)
Girl I need you in my life . (J'ai besoin de toi dans ma vie)

[3rd Part]
[Leslie] :
Je t'ai laisser mener notre histoire, comme tu l'entendais, (I let you lead our story, as you wanted it)
Sans jamais baisser les bras. (Without giving up)
Si rien n'empêche que tu t'en aille (If nothing prevent that you're leaving)
Je suis condamné à souffrir où que j'aille. (I'm convict to suffer wherever I go.)
[Bobby V.] :
Can't take no more, (Je ne peux pas en supporter plus,)
Can't take no more (Je ne peux pas en supporter plus)
Can't take no... (Je ne peux pas...)
[Leslie] :
Ton silence me fait violence, (Your silence makes me violence,)
Tu m'as quitté sans indulgence, (You left me without indulgence,)
Sans compassion, je me sens si seule. (Without condolence, I feel so lonely.)

[Refrain] x2.5
[Leslie] :
Accorde moi cette dernière danse, (Allow me this last dance)
Juste une dernière chance de retarder ton départ. (Just a last chance to delay your departure.)
[Bobby V.] :
Baby I can take another day, coz I wanna stay, (Bébé je peux prendre un jour de plus, parce que je veux rester,)
Girl I need you in my life . (J'ai besoin de toi dans ma vie)

[Outro]
[Bobby V.] :
Sing it for me Leslie, Bobby Valentino, Leslie, Yeah (Chante pour moi Leslie, Bobby Valentino, Leslie, Yeah)

You know you've evolved from the lil' spoilt brat that u once were :

when you start doing grocery shopping wisely :)

i.e : You know where to get ur grocery goods where and what smartly at good prices.

e.g The Cadbury big choc 400g family bars are at AUD4 each only available from BigW.

Maltesers Tear N' share giant 330g bag for AUD 3.99!!! at K-mart

San Remo instant pasta packs for one serving specials at AUD1.09.!.:)for selected flavours only at Coles.

It's these times that you finally realise, when you go shopping wisely and actually read the brochures that they chuck in ur mailbox...

how much you've grown. And changed. Lols.

Random.

Random :p

If u feel entirely bored with ur life already,

And hv nothing else better to do right now,

then you can try the quiz on the right ---->

I can assure you though, its a tough one =)

Have fun!

But what if you found out that it was all a lie ?

What would you do if you found out that someone you did care for (i.e a friend) told you something?

You tried your best to help.

But then you found out that it was all a lie.

Every single piece of it. They were just missing pieces to one big LIE jigsaw puzzle.

Although there were times that it shed light on what might just seem to be a lie, you forced yourself to look behind it and face the matter.

But,

Everything was a joke. The joke was on YOU.

What would you do.?

Would you forgive and forget?

Or would you just forget and not forgive?

Forget about all the times when you were friends,

When indeed all they were; were props,

Props to their giant masterplan of lies.

You're right.

I did take it the hard way.

Wk 5 : The uni life

Being in uni can be somewhat of an interesting experience. Its so big, its not like school. Ppl come from all over the world to study here, so you get to meet a diversified group of ppl. And really DIVERSE.

Doing all the work required, yet trying to take a short break is like impossible.! School and college from 8-3 or 4 evryday, 5 times a week totals up to 40 hrs! But that was no biggie somehow. Now, just 12 contact hours, yes 12 and I'm complaining. It feels like so much time taken away from u, still. And above all that, still backlogging and not completing assignments on time.

Herm, I wonder why. Still am. Must be the freedom that I get here or sth:) Taking 4 subjects, each with 6 units of credit. Working my way towards the double degree of BCom (Acct n Finance)/ BEc(FinancialEconomics). Triple major there. Gonna be 4 years of lugging my butt up to uni every week. Ppl say that commerce subjects seem simpler to science, but are they really? No matter what they say, I think science could be easier. Or is it just me ? Everything in commerce is so new! Perhaps its those never-ending years of science that made me realised how much I missed learning bout quantum physics, calculus calculus as well as organic and inorganic chem. There are times when my housemates (both engineering)would be doing their work that I would take a look at their books and notes. Just out of curiosity :) Eheh, can't believe I don't ever have to learn science nemore. To understand forces and how machines like drill pumps etc. work. Woot!

Makes me think bout why I went into science. Such a Malaysian thing to do perhaps?

Hmm, finished two quizzes already. QMA counted for 2% of the overall assessment, whereas 1612 counted for 15%. O.o My crystal ball tells me that there are gonna be more sleepless nights and more hours of reading the 849 paged finance book. More quizzes coming up in the future! In the near future, that is. Why do I feel like I'm gonna have less time to shop?

On a totally unrelated note, I know that if ever,

I spend more time on eating rather than studying, and that I don't graduate from UNSW, I know I'll always have this.

The University of Blogging Presents to Lee Na Ho An Honorary Bachelor of Self Portraiture Majoring in Eating Signed Dr. GoQuiz.com �

Username:

Blogging Degree
From Go-Quiz.com

Wait a minute, self portraiture as in cam whore?

Sighh..

Triple hmmph.

Bleukz

Maybe its time to update my blog a lil since its so long since I did anything. I'm in a good mood today anyway. So good mood equals time to update blog!

Its already Week 3 of uni! 2nd week for tutes. Met some interesting and great people. And not so great ones too. But its fun because:


In kindi n primary school :
- You meet ppl from around the district, like for me when I went to Sri inai, evbd was from round Ampang, Setapak, Wangsa Maju n the like. All close close la.

In secondary school :
- You meet ppl from all around the state i.e. KL n Selangor. Everywhere around KL. Hartamas, D.U, P.J. SEA, Bangsar, Puchong, Serdang, Segambut, Jinjang, Kajang. You name it la we have it. Especially when it is a good school, yea sure. One that stands head and shoulders above the rest maybe?

In college :
- Its all bout meeting people from all over the country. Yea mann. From Perlis to Alor Setar to N.S to Melaka right down to J.B and all over to Kuching, K.K and the like.

No-no's when meeting ppl from Sarawak and East Malaysia: (Speaking thru experience, haha)
is to ask them which 'group' they belong to. Being not-as-cultured as I thought I was, first thing I did was to ask them like where mar ? The group ? Like Iban, Kadazan, or Melanau, Bajau that kindof thing. Turns out, that rule only applied to aborigines, like Bumiputera aborigines. Hmm.

Zara's answer : "Modern Chinese laaa. What group ?"$!!!?@@

In uni :
I guess this is the maximum di, but hey! You get to meet ppl from all over the world, like seriously all over the world lorh. France, U.S, Australia of course, more Msians, Singaporeans, Thai, Mainland Chinese, Koreans, Japs, Indos and the list goes on and on.

uni, uni, uni

Liberal socialist clubs in uni..

Also : you really get to experience so many different cultures. Gotta get used to the Aussie slang. And for first-timers like me it can be a lil overwhelming, the whole culture shock. One month after I arrived here, great great experience : the Mardi Gras 07. Tis' true, the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras has grown from a local gay pride event to being arguably the most spectacular gay and lesbian event in the world. At least that's what it says here.


The start of the event.

Waiting waiting, and this fella keeps taking pics of the stickers on my face. Dunno for what reason la.


The city was like really really packed.




Some people had to climb a tree to get a good view.


Cupids I think.


Ehem. This was sposed to be Dreamgirls I think.

Golden Gaytime. Didn't know it even existed.

On another note, I just got a letter. Sth that went along the lines of compulsory voting in Australia.

The electoral roll is a list of all people who are registered to vote in Australian elections. In Australia, all citizens over the age of 18 must enrol to vote. It is compulsory by law to enrol and compulsory by law to attend a polling place at election time.

I am an Aussie citizen. Turned 18. And well turns out I am on the electoral roll. Therefore, I must vote. I know when it is, state elections are on the 24th of March. Yea all that is good. I am voting in the State seat of Coogee. That's really good to know too. I only have one problem. Erm, like who ? I don't even know who is running. Shall do research or sth I guess. Feels so mature I guess, to vote.

Camwhore time :


Lookies, new addition to my collection. Lurrve the ring :)


Ohh and bout kingsford and my new place :

View of the city from Hon's 8th floor place
Camwhoring in my room : love long mirrors.=)
The wardrobe is still not big enuff ;p Was empty, but before my 7 bags and 2 boxes arrived =)
Which place is not complete without a great toilet anyway ?
Our lounge, dining table and gaming place. Before we actually moved in. Back then when it was neat and tidy..

Hey

Oh yea I know I haven't updated for an uber long time. I always promised to do it whenever I can and whenever sumthink different and new happened but I haven't been able to actually sit down and complete a paragraph. So much has happened. It's been tiring and just doing everything. Busy busy larr. And my internet connection also not very good la. If you know me then you'll know why haha. This is just an entry to prove that I'm not dead yet, far from it haha. Just missing in action for a lil while la. Understand sikit la.

Anyways today was the first day of uni. Our econ1202 lect is damn cute la. Too bad his married di. All the garls are like wow!

Just the whole experience of uni life, I joined I'm not sure how many societes la but a lot. MSO of course, ecosoc, choc lovers club, french, wrestling?, young entrepeneurs, and muches more la. O-week was a blast! Hahaha esp the freebies. I guess just the experience of meeting new ppl, a feeling of deja vu everytime you see someone, like hey I've met this fella before. The newness, the connections and all, you'll realise this world isn't as big as you thought.

Somehow everybody is connected.

I've moved into a new apartment already. Its a 3br place. A whole Malaysian affair. The owner of the unit is Malaysian. Living inside, 3 Malaysian tenants. Right in the heart of Sydney. Well not in the heart la, sumwhere close larh.

They're cooking soup today. I'll just pop over and see if our kitchen is still in its original position. :)

Next entry will have lots of pics, everything I tell you. But for now, let's see what the guys are up to.

As Chinese New Year emerges from round the corner..

Its Sunday, this Sunday.

Where, for the first time in my life, I'm celebrating CNY away from home. In Australia.

I haven't felt homesick once, it's been two weeks, but not ONCE did I feel so far away and so absent, so distant, from Msia. But suddenly it all came back to me. When they were discussing where and what to do and who's house to go to this CNY. Or Chinatown maybe?

Somehow I feel like there is not enough emotion, not enough mood, like no feel la know what I mean? for culminating in the joyous festivities of CNY here.

CNY here?? NNNOOOOOO. Just doesn't feel right. Ishhh me very jealous of Jac, JiaHui n Ruth cuz they're all gonna have a chance to celebrate it right before they come Down Under for studies.

Getting more jealous now.

What I'm missing out these year, seemed like nothing and such a pain-in-the-ass before this, but now when you don't have it, you just think back of the old times and how you had so much fun doing it before :

- Long, way long before the CNY is the CNY shopping of course. New clothes for the new year! Isn't that simple enough? Damn, should've done it when I was in KL before I left. Now I have no new CNY clothes. Hmmph. Oh yea I have new ones, but they're not for CNY. Its just not enough feel la, where can? Must plan before buying CNY clothes wan wat. Evbd knows that. Not sum random ones which u just spent ur education fees on bought what rite?

- On lin sa a man, reunion dinner of course. Which CNY dinner is complete without all the members of your giant, hyper-extended family ?

- After dinner, we return to our respective homes and do the angpow wrapping. I dunno about other families la, but its mostly me n my sis that will help Mum n Dad with the angpows. Now, now. Which cousin gets which angpow. Which friend gets which one. All we do wan, u know. Don't mess. My sis and I. Except our own ones la o cuz.. Otherwise we'll freely chuck in another or a few other green or purples if u know what I mean.

-After dinner, rushing to temple at 11pm every CNY eve, squeezing in and out of Chi Cheong Kai just to get parking space.

-Meeting all the relos again at the temple.

- Masuk temple only, damn crowded and stupiak shorties dunno how to hold jossticks properly, and smoke gets in your eyes. No not the song but like seriously. Everybody tears when they come out of the temple. The thing is nobody is emoing.

- I decided to be smart and from last year onwards I wore my glasses to the temple. Haha still teared but not as bad.

- Have a chit chat after that, deciding where to have supper. Makan again. This family arhh, neva stop eating wan. Which Hokkien mee would it be this time?
"You wanna go to the one at Jln So and So or you want the one at Jln This and That?"
"Hmm So and So is only number 2 in KL la, nothing beats the Jln Blabla"
The talk continues and in the end it gets too late to even order, they would've been closed already.

- But the clock would've struck midnite already and somehow the adults meet their long lost friends in temple. Reward : kids get their first angpows of the day. Lurvly.

- And you know the famous old tradition, no sweeping, cleaning on 1st day for fear that it might sweep all the luck, fortune and prosperity away.

fook

- Wake up, get our second catch of angpows. Who else but from the parental units. Hehe.

- Ohh then the best part, the best part. Visiting and mengada-ngada la. From one house to another. Family to relos to friends. Angpow collection increasing after every house visited. Weight also. Somehow they just serve the best food.

- Oh yea, evbd in our family is vegetarian for the first half of the first day of CNY. It was supposed to be the whole day, but you know us carnivores can't take that, so our sentence was reduced to just half a day being a vegan and sek chai. PHEW! How could we possibly miss Auntie Lily's Nasi Kunyit and Rendang. And Kari Ayam. And Achar. And all those Indian delights which I can't remember the name of. YES, yes. All this on the first day of CNY. I know its not Hari Raya or Deepavali but our family works in mysterious ways.

- We meet lotza long-lost relatives too.

- WE gamble until the morning comes. BE it big or small. Evbd is a lan tou kuai. Last year we also learnt a new gambling card game, with much higher stakes than chor dai di. Who plays chor dai di anymore neways? Not heng anymore laaa. The new one, tou tei ju, (battle the landlord) we learnt in Guangzhou is the ultimate. 2 versus 1 in a high-risk, skill-involving, card game. Those with weak hearts and are unable to take loss easily, I rather you not try. I'll teach you la, when I come back.

- And after all that is done and we all go home and rest. Its time for us to do the giving. Its a neighbourhood tradition la. Hard to comprehend. But what we do is we give angpows to our two closest next door neighbours, both Malays. And some kam too I think. Maybe cookies too? I dunno how this started, but we do it every year and that's why we get angpows and food and cakes sometimes during Hari Raya and Deepavali. And invitations to their open houses. Quite fun ehh? Exchange exchange and all.

I'm so gonna miss all these mann. I need to head out to Chinatown. I need civilisation. I need CNY.

Ayakz, miss last year also when Ah Teh and I celebrated our bday's on CNY. His was on the first day of CNY, whereas mine was on the second. But I wondered why I had no luck gambling arh, that year?

I'm booking my flight ticket. I am definitely going to be in KL for CNY 08.

But to everybody reading this now, be it Chinese or non, Gong Hey Fatt Choi. May this be a wealthy, healthy and prosperous, not to mention great year to all.

Love,
Lee Na.