Life in Aussie

Today, my accommodation, Albert House directed a horror/thriller starring (almost) all of the people staying.

The Amazing Race(Albert House ed.)
Directed by: Owner of Albert House.
Script Writer: Former Albert House squatter.
Starring: Almost everyone in Albert House.
Guest Starring: Friends of former Albert House squatters.

Sigh...I chose the wrong day to take a morning walk to a (quite) far train station to get a book.
As soon as I got back, while eating lunch.

Teammate A: Hey Wee Lee, you are with me in Leader's group.
Inner thought: Uh oh...

Mission Start!
Briefing,

MZ(Script Writer): Ok, you will need to take various of pictures around Melbourne and yadadada....

1.30pm
Preparations,
Bottles-check
Camera with battery-check
Bag-check
Shoes-check
Team members-uh...I think 2 went MIA already.(Went shopping...)...Nevermind, Let's go...

2.00pm
Starts!

And so, the horror scene including running around all of Melbourne City just to realise we missed a picture just by a look, jay walking around Melbourne City avoiding cars and trams, bumping into other teams, and so on.

Note: Jay walking in Melbourne gets $150 fine(ouch!)

4.45pm
Final lap: Get to Melbourne Central by 5.(From current location, walking would take 25min)

Leader: Let's go...run!
Teammate B: *Follows on*

Few sec later, I lost sight of them.

4.55pm
Reaching Melbourne Central...

Me: Phew, made it...*resting as the clock struck 5*

*Pictures taken by camera mans for a couple of seconds*

Somebody : Run ah!!!
Inner Thought: Not again...

The last part is apparently is running back to Albert House from Melbourne Central.

At least the relieved part is.

First team: 102 points
2nd team : 71 points
3rd team : 54 points
4th team : 37 points

And so on.

Winner team gets 500mb added to their internet limit per member.
2nd team gets movie ticket.

And yea, my team won...due to crazy running.
Now I am dead tired.

Friday was the last day of orientation(*sniff*...*blow nose*). Admittedly I really like the orientation since its cool with lots of activities.

All good things must come to an end but it always ends with a BANG! in form of Fair Dinkun
Since the main purpose is to collect our student card on Friday which have a weird note on it...

Its divided into A-L and M-Z...the weird part is...A-L line is totally empty while M-Z is totally long... M-Z surnames sounds nicer?
We also have some clubs recruiting members...sad news is...only Trinity clubs are free...in order to join Melbourne Uni clubs...payment is needed.

But somehow...either I am not my normal self or maybe its just that there is...too many people in my dorm registering for Cook A Feast.

Note: IF it's not obvious enough...yes...it's a cooking club.
Note 2: The main reason some of the boys joined is hopefully to find girls.
Note to self: Learn up fire safety in case of emergency in the house of our mentors.

After the clubs...Its Bush Dance time.

Dancing to classic Aussie music is quite neat...although the dance is quite...unique.
Had a great time with the friends although its wow of a tiring.


At least I thought that was tiring...until the next day.

Ah...The day finally arrives for Maths 1 lecture...
Now I really get it why everyone was doing the homework with so much problems.

The lecture is messy...We started out from pg. 12...we "slowly" backtrack to 1...then go "slowly" to 10. I got hardly enough time to flip the pages.

Which contains too many things that I have not even heard about...less aside understanding.
Not to comment on anything but...It's kinda looked like our add.maths back then is soo inferior compared to the other countries...even Indo got something that I haven't seen before.

At least...the good news is...Maths 1...Calculator is allowed

On the bad news...no calculator allowed for Maths 2.(It's back to basics time!)
At least our lecturer promised that we won't be needing it, let's see if it is for real.

Today...we talk about literature...Why is literature important?

Seriously though...don't ask me...I won't know how to answer that even though my lecturer continue to babbl....er... I mean explain to us why is it so important.

After that was Maths 2. The teacher is wicked funny... Let's start with..a joke

What does 0 tell the 8?
Leave a shout to the answer.

Aside from cracking jokes...he does teaching quite well...I started to love maths for a change until...

Happily running back to my house...one of my housemate says "Let's go do Maths 1 homework...so that can enjoy the weekend!"

Feeling confident after maths 2 lecture...of course we all go.

1.00pm:
Start work...(Hmm..this looked like add.maths...oh wait a min...factorise cubic? uh oh)

2.00pm:
Omg...(how many more questions dude?...what the...Pascal's Triangle...you sure we still in Maths 1?)

4.00pm
Phew...finally done...or...are we?

8.00pm
(Sight of people doing the same work in the dining area fills the landscape)

Yesterday was the first day which lectures officially starts...

First off for me is...Academic Skills Unit

Um...its not an official subject but the lecturer stresses a lot about cultures such as Australian culture and ask us what differs from our personal culture.
I am not really sure whats the point of it...

Second comes Physics...and we learn about vectors!
Hmm...I wonder why is vector in add.maths back in Msia.
Anyway... some memories of add.maths seems to return a little...hopefully

Last for today is HOI a.k.a History of Ideas.

This is one unique subject that we must pass to get to uni but its possible to avoid getting graded.. Confusing enough?

Basically its History...but we don't have to memorise a thing...but we have to think of everything such as...'What is it to be human?'
That sort of stuff.

For those back in Msia, does the poem The Road Not Taken sounds familiar?
We are also doing it here...along with some poems from other states.

Most of you back in Msia would probably have read or going to read about an accident involving 5 teenagers on the highway

The car was speeding at 180km/h (Yes...that fast)
A collision caused 2 passenger in the rear seat to be hurled out of the car.
1 Died on the spot...
1 Died on the way to the hospital...

I have no direct link neither I know either of them but 1 of my housemate here is a friend of the 2 which have died...Both are only 16.

I posted this as a fair advice...please don't go speeding that fast ever and please fasten your rear seat belts.

My Condolence,
Lone Strider...

Saturday, 21 Feb

Probably the first time going back to the beach after a decade.
Beaches here is extremely clean as probably much would have guessed.

The wind is incredible and the water is cool and cold at the same time along with not-so-white sand but still clean non the less.

Seriously have to put this somehow: My current accommodation name


Thing to do while waiting for tram:
Taking picture of people waiting while standing on the track


P/s: Don't do this unless you have your insurance prepared...

Upon reaching:

After that? Well...




Heroes of Swimmers and Divers... seriously...the water is quite cold during that time...along with strong winds.

Note: Please only swim in between 2 marked flags indicating life guard service.
(The shown location is a bad example)


Strong wind= Good time for wind surfing...

Last but surely not least

Finally got my hands on pictures for Sovereign Hill excursion.

Far shot from hilltop




Work horses...those are really huge horses...



Gold Mine(formerly)... washing for gold these days are no longer fun

Enough of that...

Our college's Big Noise performance yesterday was incredible as well...Just like a rock band only the instruments is from Brazil(?)

Even the performer is performing some Brazil-origin-dance/martial arts
Really cool as it looks like breakdancing but slower...
Our professional band... instrument looks kinda South America?

Overall...its totally ear deafening but its really nice once in a while...I can hardly hear my own voice after 1 hour plus of music blast.

Random Image 1: Streets of Melbourne

Sovereign Hill was destination yesterday. Sprained my ankle... pictures need to be taken from another friend of mine which I haven't got it..

Its a former gold mine if anyone is not informed enough...The people there is totally funny in a good sense... The gold purifying process is nice. The only complain...the weather is hot and the smell is...wow

Today was full of drama...literally taking drama and arts in orientation...I got a feeling English is gonna get worse from here on.



Random picture 2: Er...self explain?


Random Picture 3: Tame birds

Today's orientation lecture was pure zzzzz...reminded me of what wahati would sound like...but at least their English is few hundred times better

Information was repeated for the 3rd time today and half the hall is near asleep...include me of course...

ZZZZ.....

Was suppose to post yesterday...got kinda hooked up on stuffs.

We got orientation in our hostel during dinner and the food made us realised that...all food here is "sweet"...literally...

"Char Siew" mee on Saturday was sweet as if its added sugar...and dinner was...


Sweet Chilli Sauce...cool eh?..Believe it or not...its Made in Malaysia...
Is it just me...or I never ever seen it before back then.

Even the corn soup is ugh-kind-of-sweet.

After dinner was...tortu...I mean playing games time

Before:


After:


Today was particularly dull...Went out for dinner with my mum with comes with an interrogation session.

After the lectures..was..having fun of course...(all my housemates are using extreme high end laptops...one of em using a RM10k laptop)...while others is a min for 3-5k..

lets c...some of these:


Its guitar hero if its not obvious enough

OR some of these:



Frankly..Cyber cafe + live band orchestra..what else can you demand for?..(there is a cello beside the piano but our guitarist refuse to start unless there is a drummer...).The girls are really freaked out by our shouting i think...but hey...at least we clapped after the songs

All the way till...



The room!..seriously..6 person crowd in a room is OMG hot stuff...good thing our "land lord" was kind enough to lend us the dining hall..(pics upper part)...

There is also (mini) pool game and foos ball but pictures cant be taken due to the garage being too...dark in a sense

Fine...fine..pictures soon...kinda lazy wan transfer those blur pic from phone to com.
Today in college was all about lecture on course that we have to choose soon.

And believe it or not( those friends back in MLK...especially x-MHS students). Biology got the highest average score here...and the lecturer is a bit of sadist...I think

Aside from that...nth too special i guess. Just information about what kinda things we can hope to do and what we need to buy.

For starters..lets c a blur picture of the lecture hall...



Looks like a cineplex isn't it?

And some from the campus


Old on the outside..far more advance on the inside...

Today marks the first day of orientation for my college...with good and bad

Never got to take any pictures...Nokia phone is bad with cameras soo...well
Anyway today was quite something...

We got a tour around Melbourne uni and Trinity lead by a guide which hardly knows the way around..

After tour was lunch...sitting at the died grass...enjoying the scenery of the old buildings while getting toasted by the sun..Cool eh?

After lunch was English Diagnostics Test...the test is even harder than SPM+ trial paper combined..ouch!..or maybe its just i never written english for too long.

First post are always meant to be long before it gets shorter and shorter over time isn't it?

Life over here is unique in the sense...my college is "nearly" as old as MHS..just a couple of decade younger.

People here are nice and such...but still doesn't really feel like home. The home I am staying is good in quite a few sense

Food: good(for now...i heard unlikely comments)
Room: fair enough
Facilities: not bad($3 to use the washing machine and $1 for the dryer. How bad can it be?)
Internet: this is the only "OMG" part about living here.

Limit of 700mb per month. It dc every couple of minute and someone mentioned that if the doors towards downstairs are all closed...internet on the 2nd floor is totally gone.

Signing~ out~ first post...