its amazing how the other day i woke up at 11am, but today i got up at 6am. 8am starts D= but it's worth waking up early to practice.

optom is so fail. one of the pre-requisites for enrolling was "PHSL" but someone put in "PHPH" and that course doesn't exist, so now no one can enrol, apart from the people who repeated, and the people who actually realised th typo and told the enrolling person, before all 100 of us spammed her email. my email probs got pushed to the button, so my desired group is probs all taken. also another subject had pre-requites which we is actually not required, so that person is going to have so much fun manually enrolling all of us.

tbh, i don't really care what group i get next year since they're almost equal, (unlike this sem where i can sometimes have a 4day week). i just need to pass! all these pracs are so tricky. another prac exam next week, and we only had 1 prac each to learn/master it. not enough time! i guess everyone's in the same boat (well people who didn't repeat). it's just that all the optm lectures have at least 90 slides per hour, with each slide jam packed with words/pictures/diagrams. going through one lec takes so long =/ so worried. i know i need to study harder. 

i am actually saying this, but please time go slower. wk 11 already almost over, not enough time to study D=

large, rose flavoured ice choc-$8

finally used my free coco cubano free drink voucher. figured i actually won't have time until next year lol. the person gave me a hot one, but i actually ordered an iced one, i guess that person ordering didn't hear, so the guy who first gave it to me was pretty pissed off. then another nicer guy came to give me the drink...it's not too sweet and not to heavy on the rose flavour, quite nice

nyc apartments

nyc buildings are already giants compared to sydney's, but with this new apartment block being the highest in nyc, our buildings will be midgets! people think america is cheap, but nyc is one of the most expensive places to live, even if you live on the outskirts of nyc, or the other boroughs. apartments are super small, majority smaller than hong kong's, hence why almost no one does their laundry in the apartments since there's no space for one (unlike hk, where they can at least fit in a washing machine). so those new apartments are crazily expensive. i bet the $8mil apartment itself is super small, but i guess it's the prestige of living in a famous building and on a rich street. 

it's also amazing how fast you can spend money. if i didn't go to the US, i can go to at least 5 other countries incl expenses. like back when i went to Japan it was still a bit expensive, but now i can say it's in the category of "cheap" places overseas since the yen has dropped. UK is still in the expensive category since the aussie dollar is also slowly dropping. but place such as spain are probably on the "medium" side. 

it took over 2 weeks for the "occupy central" protest in central HK to reside. apparently the protest were actually quite peaceful at times, with people collecting rubbish, handing out water etc. well, politics is politics, and it has unfortunately made a massive split in the family. too bad one of my cousins is getting married soon. i won't be surprised if the two outspoken people in the family end up strangling each other due to politics... they are so stubborn. just let the other person talk and stop retaliating. gave up reading their messages after the 2nd day. they actually right essays to each other.

feels like winter again (: just don't like the storms. it's crazy how blue mountains had bush fires last year, but snowing this year

some people are just so brave and words can't really say much. you know who you are <3