Friday, May 31, 2013

Vivid Sydney!

even though i had heaps of study to do, i still went to vivid, and it was worth my time. the projections with the music was so good! stayed for about 2 hours, and saw about 1/3 of the stuff.

twas very crowded on a friday night (as you would expect). heaps of parents pushing prams.

didn't want to spam my phone camera. iphone cameras are super good for quick snaps, esp in daylight, but at night, there's too much exposure, so it doesn't focus properly when zoomed, which is why my normal camera is still useful, since it was built/made for night shots.

my favourite? probably MCA and the cranes floating up the tower!

building was so trippy. there was a projection which looked like the building swayed.

MCA. I LOVE THIS COLOUR SCHEME! which is why i also love orchids. purple , blue, aqua, green. (: i also have a scarf with these colours. it was so pretty. there were some which had a waterfall on the building.

just got a glimpse before i left.

interactive light up ground!

purply-pink!

gelatissimo! i had the panna cotta with berries. the only reason why i'm disappointed because last time i had paid ice cream, it also had berries in it, so i feel like i'm wasting flavours. Dandelion had tiramisu, which was really nice (:

crowded tunnel



almost missed my bus. actually i missed it, and there was an old lady pointing to me/talking to the bus driver, so the bus stopped at a bus stop which it didn't normally stop at just for me. thank you dear old lady! buses after 8pm comes every once an hour...


Next up: Finals

Finally! no more exams...until finals.
after 8 weeks of consecutive exams/handing stuff in, while keeping on top of work.

algebra was ok i guess, the last questions numbers looked nice, but when i did it , i got heaps of fractions :/

damnnnnnn. eisteddfod the night before 8:45am maths exams. noooooo. and then mid year concert in the middle of finals. damnnnnnn. troupe if fun, but that commitment D=

they were going over babs exam format today, it's kind of weird: 50 multiple choice, fill in the blanks and short response. and then they were saying, if you label everything right except for the last two for diagrams, they'll still give you the mark. and you can give synonyms for you answers. but then, not looking forward to short response. do not get all those dna replicating things. genetics is actually quite interesting. i think that part is the only part which will be slightly relevant to my future.

still have lectures for visn next week ): that's what's bad about having a small course, they can easily decide we need extra lectures/ tutes since they still haven't taught us everything.

i wish i could cram, but i can't. 2 weeks is not enough time.

Sunday, May 26, 2013

out of all the stockings my aunt got me last year (there were about 20 pairs), i don't have a full black sheer pair of stickings with no gusts(?). the part where there's this line. need to go buy more stockings ):

and another thing i forgot to buy in hk: bright red lipstick, because even non branded make-up in aus is not cheap.

also, i fugured out why my phone battery lasted longer than normal on friday! so i was procrastinating (as one does, even though i am behind on work), and connecting your phone on wifi last for 10 hours, whilst connecting to 3g last 8 hours (continous use). on fri, i felt like connecting to uni wifi, and thus, my phone lasted longer than normal. i thought 3g used more battery, but now that i think about it, it makes sense, since 3g have to connect to mobile stuff further away than wifi connection...

but new record! i managed to use 900mb of mobile data in a month, probs because i watched heaps of videos from whatsapp and downloaded heaps of lecture notes without saving them, and then repeatedly download massive files on my phone. still had 600mb left unused. i've always been using 3g at uni, since mobile internet is more expensive than wifi, and since i get 1.5gb, i utilise the expensive option. but then uni wifi is not bad, and it saves more battery, (i like to save battery), so probs leave wifi on.


Saturday, May 25, 2013

mathsandmoremaths

a whole day of maths, yet i am still 3 chapters behind in calculus, and 1.5 chapters behind in algebra. so sad. it takes me 30mins to do one massive inverse/reduce to row echelon form. and sometimes i'm off for a bit, and spend 15mins trying to find what's wrong with it. in reality, it takes me 30min to find and correct my mistake. sooo time consuming. and i don't want to skip half done questions which i know how to do, i'll rather skip questions which i have no idea how to do (which probably doesn't make sense...) but argh maths. and doing to online test, couldn't do half of it D=

relatives sending me photos of haagen daaz ice cream cake. they're actually expensive, even when you convert to aussie dollars, and they're small ish as well...but they're other cake they had fancy decorative work.

ahhh, algebra....i think i get it it would be easy, like some stuff i get it's do-able, but how would i know when to use matrixes or just sub stuff in or how many solutions are there for planes/lines? hopefully i'll figure this out all tomorrow...

what's also bad about having one eye which is super blurry, is that during visn pracs, i actually can't do them, since you have to use your eyes to look through these instruments/equipment and focus on stuff, but my right eye can't even read stuff at 25 or 40cm (Least Distance of Distinct Vision!).

slept for 10 hours today. oh that extra 2+ hours i could've used....but saturdays is the day where i get enough sleep, and on weekends are the days where i have time to eat massive meals. yes, i do like my food.

Friday, May 24, 2013

Week 11

i am ao angry/annoyed with the world right now. (oh wow, makes me sound teen angsty =/)

exam at 9am today. i left the house half an hour earlier than normal. USUALLY, the earlier you leave, the less traffic you experience. OUT OF ALL THE DAYS FROM DAY 1 TO WEEK 11 FRIDAY, I EXPERIENCED THE WORST TRAFFIC JAM EVER. FROM LANE COVE TUNNEL ALL THE WAY TO M2 EPPING. that's at least 20km of traffic. so it took me 1 hour 40min to get to the city, usually it's <1 hour. and then i had the slowest driving bus driver to uni. got there at 10 past 9 after running to class. and the annoying thing is that i couldn't see what was making the traffic. t has rained before, but the weather hasn't caused this much traffic before. luckily they didn't start yet, but by then i wasn't in a test mood. couldn't even study on the bus because i was panicking about arriving there on time. then 10 more people arrived when the test started. for finals, i will have to leave the house by 6:15am, to have 45mins stuck in traffic.

but damnnn. all that study, and i still mind blanked on a few questions. they said it was "going to be easy" but everyone said it was hard, then they said "we'll mark it leniently" but we'll never get our test back so we'll never know ):

and bus ride back felt like a vip bus ride, 10 people on the whole bus, so it took less than 40min from city to back home. oh, and bus ride back to central, sat next to this girl and she started talking to me. she's in her final/3rd year of journalism, but she won't be doing a journalistic career. personally, i think journalism has died. which brings me to my next topic. THIS WEEK THIS NUMBER HAS RANG ME 3 TIMES A DAY FOR 5 DAYS. it started with an 03 area code, so form melbourne, the only number that has called me before was from SMH, since we used to be subscribers, but ended it. so i have been silencing/ignoring all those calls for the whole week except for today, and sure enough, it was SMH asking for subscribtions. we already received a letter saying to re-subscribe, but seriously, it's only like 30% cheaper, whereas last time it was 70% cheaper. anyways, i just told the person they had the wrong number (hopefully they would stop calling me). and you know the whole story about SMH being tabloid size, i think it's easier to hold, BUT reading news on phones are so much better (or ipads for all those business people in the morning was like a bigger screen compared to their iphones...) starting to sleep on buses since i get less than 8 hours of sleep these days. sleep for about half an hour to and from city, which makes up to 8 hours of daily sleep. and half the people sleep on the bus.

i am behind on everything, and i am super annoyed. usually i prioritise stuff, BUT EVERYTHING I HAVE TO DO AND STUDY FOR IS IMPORTANT! what to do!?

also on wed, 2.50 moochi. i already skipped a third of the line, but still had to wait 45+min. I REGRET BUYING IT. there, i said it. since they had to mass produce it, there wasn't enough flavour in it. i got watermelon and strawberry cheesecake w/ green apple pearls, mango pearls and mochi (last time they didn't have mochi at george st...). not worth my time. i wanted coconut, but they didn't have it since it ran out. also, their production line was very slow. like they let people take photos of the food, instead of hurrying up to serve it. i mean, use common sense, there's a 50m queue, you can take photos of the toppings/froyo some other day when there isn't a queue instead of blocking your fellow work mate serving people.

it's sooo small. i take back what i said about noggi. moochi used to be the cheapest. i shall do a photo and price list comparison when i have time. already, from jan to may, they have decreased size and increased prices. by next year...

no time to go to Vivid Sydney, so taking photos on the bus. couldn't really see the opera house going northbound on the bridge ): (since you're on the further side of the bridge away from the opera house). but hk light shows are heaps better.

something happened to my right eye contact. my right eye started to screw up reallllly badly, and then looking at the lens, there seems to be a scratch and a mark on it, so it doesn't work properly. now i can't see anything form my right eye, i can only make out the shapes of objects, so i'm depending on my left eye for vision, and the difference in power between my eye is and feels super large, so my perspective of things feel different, and it tires my eye quickly and starts to hurt. i was going to wait until end of next week, since i still have exams/reports due next week, but i can't wait, like my eyes hurt from being tired. so going to appointment next week. hopefully my contacts gets fixed soon.

damn, some hk relatives can afford to have "wagyu beef parties with matching wines" which my uncle bought directly from Japan and also smoked salmon w/ matching salads which my cousin brought direactly from canada, and now they're whatsapping photos and it's making me hungry. how i wish you could bring meat into aus (actually, i don't, since there would be so many diseases, and aus would become filthy...)

long post. feeling annoyed at wasting time. but i needed to let my thoughts out or else i wouldn't be able to focus on studying. the only good news is that my phone is surprisingly not on low batteries despite leaving mobile data/wifi on and phone calls/photos etc etc from 7am to now. frustrated at questions and not enough time. ):

Sunday, May 19, 2013

dance eisteddfod today. didn't place ): just realised HOW FAR AWAY BLACKTOWN IS. no wonder why it's a my multi 3.  and gps was no help either, how do you want me to u-turn when the road is separated by a 7km island? it's times like these which i am thankful that i can drive on instincts and logic.

the dances today had soooo many props. like a pole dancing table, guns, suitcases, trampolines, random stuff, why made them pretty good, but the money they spend...

cousin in hk got married yday. it's actually her 2nd wedding, yeah, her family history is complicated. like she has a daughter who is about the same age as my bro, but they don't see each other... but from photos, she had about 5 different dresses, 8 bridesmaids, and the place was sooooo pretty. lights changing on the ceiling, flashing light dance floor, food looked delicious, decorations was so pretty. wish i was there....

and i am so screwed for vision. i understand it when i have answers. but there aren't any answers in the test...
don't think i'll be blogging a lot. today marks the day where i will fall behind on every other subject (not like i wasn't before, like babs i don't understand anything after mid sem test, so i will have to cram the week before...)

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

it's actually really easy to be lazy and not post, even though i have so much to say. so much to do :/

anyways, I HAD TO SHARE THIS WITH YOU GUYS!

http://www.groupon.com.au/deals/sydney/Noggi/716984843

http://www.groupon.com.au/deals/sydney/M-venpick/716991620

there was this other deal for Tomislav, hatted restaurant. i've heard/know of the restaurant. it's 100 bucks for four courses, but the deal was 80 bucks for 3 courses, and one hour of watching the chef make stuff/learning and taste testing new creations. i was going to buy one, then thought not worth it, since the choices you get are very limited, and equates to 2 entrees and one dessert, and don't even cook, so why bother learning creative stuff.

but noggi half price! and need to try movenpick ice cream.

i've bought over 6 vouchers, including other stuff, from group on. shall eat them all after exams and before wisdom teeth pulling.

dear friends, thanks for visiting! catching up with people is good. but i've "wasted" over 3 hours talking with people this week and skipped my 2nd chem lecture, and left a lecture early for the 2nd time D=
the things i do to get home early...