POSTS FROM ADELAIDE

Moved

2011-02-23T22:18:00.000-08:00

Dear readers,

Since I had officially moved to Melbourne, this link will therefore remain as part of my memory. Thus, I have decided to merge it with my other blog and all the new updates will be at http://thumpingbear89.blogspot.com/

More photos

2011-01-21T20:00:00.000-08:00

As titled

Update

2011-01-12T21:10:00.001-08:00

Started packing as I've only left less than 3 days in Adelaide before flying off to Melbourne for good. Started and ended well here for me in Adelaide. Been through ups and downs with a bunch of friends which contributes to my life experience here. Went to Sean's farewell dinner and Michelle's birthday. As the month goes, one after another friends are flying back to Malaysia. And now, its my turn to leave

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

2010-12-30T21:55:00.000-08:00

Dear friends and family or anonymous reader,

These few days had been a little hectic for me. Been out for almost everyday. Anyway, pictures time again!

One of my friend who watches TVB drama saw the UniSA logo with eagle eyes saw this. (Proud)

Was invited to have dinner with some friend's family in Handorf (will bring u all there during my graduation)

Chill out at the beach (Glenelg)

Attended friends graduation as well. There are some more pictures but weren't uploaded yet but my friends.

Party with friends

Christmas dinner with friends (Handmade sushi, Turkey which can fit 30 people, roast duck and chicken, mashed potato)

Post Exam

2010-12-23T15:33:00.000-08:00

As mentioned on the previous post, here are the updates on things my friends and I had done and go after the holidays

Took a train to Brighton Beach

Had barbecue there

Group picture

Rented a car to travel around Adelaide as well to Handorft (German Village), Toy Factory and Hallett Cove.

As Teck Weng and Wei Ling's Birthday falls on December 1st and 2nd respectively, we had dinner at Norwood (where I stayed) and a party celebration for them in our place.

Few parties after graduation ceremony

As some friends were off to holidays for their parents while some are quite busy like me, graduation pictures were not uploaded to the internet yet.

Officially Graduated

2010-12-11T20:11:00.000-08:00

A short update.

The moment one of the invigilators said 'All students, you must stop writing now unless you have an 'Entext' indicator marked on your student ID, you have 30 more minutes' tells me that I've unofficially completed the Bachelor of Applied Finance of 3 years. For many of us inclusive of myself, going through more than 20 final exam papers, 50 assessments or more, the results lies within the four subjects released on 11th December 2010. Thank GOD, all of us passed and much more, we did better compared to last semester. I myself, manage to get 1 Distinction, 2 Credits and 1 Passed Level 1. Nothing to be surprised there except that I know I could have done better.

This tells me that most of my peers would be having their graduation ceremony on 20th December 2010, an event to remember. I, myself, due to some circumstances have to wait till 29th of March 2011 for the same event. On the event itself, I would picture myself cladded in silky black robes , a square shaped mortar board on my head and on my hand, I would be holding my certificate. With me, my family and few peers would be there congratulating me and a huge smile from ear to ear tells it all.

To end this, I'm proud of myself graduating without a single failure although I did not Aced all my courses but I did manage to get all the passing grades from HD (High Distinctions) to one disappointing (P2) Passed Level 2. All in all, I'm happy but not satisfied with my results. As the saying goes; "Humans were never satisfied with what they have".

PS; next update will be something about things and places I've go and done with my friends during summer holidays

In Amidst of Memories

2010-11-13T19:51:00.000-08:00

It's been a while since I last updated here. It's probably all due to my laziness or life have been on the same routine. Flashing back, a total of 10 including myself went for a road trip to Alice Springs during the mid semester break which was in mid September. Anyway, pictures time!!! (Note: Pictures are not in order and Click on pictures to enlarge)

Attended Le Wayne's 21st Birthday party. Theme was Black and White. The Group

Norwood and Birthday girl

Off to study now. Will be camping the library till exam over on the 25th.

Yeh Sheong's 21st

2010-09-05T16:59:00.000-07:00

It was a last minute plan. We've planned to celebrate his birthday on next Saturday but one of the assignments' due date where most of us were taking will be postponed. Therefore, we held it in on Saturday (4th September). Last minute planning or doing things comes to the worst. I had to walk under the drizzling rain to buy soft drinks, alcohol and birthday cake and walk back under the heavy rain. Now i realize why people don't do last minute work.

The party begun as usual; song, cake, junk foods and drinks. Most of them came around 10.00p.m. and went home about 2.30a.m.

Again, let the pictures do the talking (a picture worth a thousand words)

Alcohols

Birthday Cake (Black Forest)

Birthday Boy and Me

Most of us

Its August!

2010-08-14T23:25:00.000-07:00

Dear family and friends,

Or should I change it to strangers because I've been getting more visitor across the world compared to Malaysia. This few weeks had been a little hectic for me while assignments are slowly piling up in for each subjects. For the last 2 and a half days, I've never touched a single lecture notes due to some small celebration for one my housemate farewell. Marking 11th August 2010, he officially graduated from UniSA degree program. Well, congratulations to him and he will be leaving Adelaide for good on this Tuesday, 17th of August to Perth.

His presence will definitely be missed; his shouting across the room while playing online game, laughter when watching drama, freestyle cooking, lame jokes and the list goes on.

Some graduation pictures. There are more but my friends did not upload them

Rented a car to Barossa Valley on the semester break

Unfair

2010-07-08T00:26:00.000-07:00

Sometimes, some things happen in this world deem to be unfair to some people. I went over to the campus central in UniSA City West Campus to inquire about the exact graduation date for students whom completing their degree by the end of this year. They told me that the convocation on the 20th December 2010 will only cater for international students where else the one for local students falls on the following year, March 2011.

For that, I try to keep my hopes high where I sent an email to the graduations and records adviser asking for guidance and if they allow me to hold my graduation convocation with my friends. However, I got a reply the following day having the same answer as I got in campus central. Guess this is another disadvantage being a local student. I really wanted to graduate the same time as my peers and also, I wouldn't know my parents will be available if mine was on March.

Should I stay here till my peers graduated or fly to Melbourne and look for a part time job while waiting for a university to accept my application of Masters program or should I fly back to Malaysia for a holiday and work part time as soon as I complete my final semester? I do not know yet.

Reflection

2010-06-11T19:40:00.000-07:00

After leaving this blog for quite some time due to hectic assignment schedules, I decided to blog once again. After completing a total 11 assignments for this semester, I will be facing the final exam in 2 weeks time. Hopefully by then, I would be well prepared enough for me to pass all of them.

Anyway, there had not much happened lately, just the same routine occur for the past month where most of my time were spent homework, finishing assignments, preparing for classes and not to forget, watching dramas.

My birthday were celebrate by a bunch of people who came over to my place. My housemates and I did barbecue sausages, lamb, chicken wings and french fries. At first I thought it was just a house party but little did I know, the birthday cake was presented in front of me.

So, let the pictures do the talk again;

Off to continue my studies

From Gold Coast to Brisbane

2010-04-24T17:10:00.000-07:00

Note: Click on pictures to enlarge

Okay, the title of this post took me about 30 minutes because I was thinking and searching for a powerful word. I told myself to improve my vocabulary in every post but I gave up halfway searching for it.

Aside from that, My friends and I went for a holiday during our mid semester break in Gold Coast and Brisbane. We went to four them parks, DreamWorld, Wet and Wild World, MovieWorld and White Water World in four consecutive days. These leave us ex

Let the pictures do the talking again.

Arriving Gold Coast, we had dinner in a Vietnamese Restaurant and had went home for an early sleep to prepare for the next day.

We went to Dream World on the next day. Ready for The Claw

Large group picture, after taking the Tower of Terror

Solo picture with a kangaroo

Another group pic

Smaller group

They even had lighting performance at night.

Next day was Movie World
Tweety Bird and Bugs Bunny

Scooby Doo

Before entering the Scooby-Doo ride

We rode Superman (its was real fast)

Had japanese food for dinner

The following day was Wet n Wild

No pictures on WhiteWater world because it was boring

Rode train from Gold Coast to Brisbane which took about 1 hour.
Mt Coo-ta where we could see the whole Brisbane city. Seriously, Adelaide is just about 10 percent of Brisbane city

Had dinner for 2 days in the same shop, A Little Singapore

Nasi Lemak

Hor Fun Soup

Already April

2010-04-03T22:20:00.000-07:00

Little that I know that it was already the month of April where I will be having my 2 weeks mid term break. This means that finals will be approaching soon which falls at the end of June and beginning of July.

Daylight saving ends today where it will only be +8.30 GMT compared to the usual +9.30 GMT. This means the time difference between Kuala Lumpur and Adelaide will only be 1 hour and 30 minutes different. Anyway, it's the once in a blue moon long holiday where we had consecutively 4 days break from last Friday due to Good Friday till Monday due to Easter.

Anyway, there's something new that happened last Tuesday, 30th March. It was Sara's graduation day and the venue was at Adelaide Festival Center. Again, I'll leave the pictures to do the talking.

Sara and her family

Teck Weng, Sara and Me

Plus Yeh Sheong

Sara and Seng Kheng

All right, off to finish my Market Research assignment and also study for the upcoming small test for Portfolio Fund Management. Promise I will write more frequently.

Been A While

2010-03-12T19:31:00.000-08:00

It's been quite some time since I left this blog untouched, unvisited, but not forgotten. Time seems to be ticking faster than expected especially when there are things going on. The mark of my fifth semester in UniSA (University of South Australia) begun 2 weeks ago.

It should be autumn by now as leaves began to dry up and the temperature marked between 15 to 25 degrees average a day. The new house at Norwood was great as well except that we are still bidding the fridge on ebay. All in all, it was much better when I first came here last year.

However, assignments begun to pile up and I've recently constructed an assignment timetable. It covers a total of 11 assignments compared to having 9 of them in my previous semester. Thus, I will be starting them by today as there will be 2 due on the same day, 29th of March.

That's all for now I'll start of with my assignments and will be heading to uni around 6.00p.m. for MYSA (Malaysia Student Association) Welcoming Night for dinner and some games.

1 Litre of Tears

2010-01-27T22:03:00.001-08:00

It's been quite some time since I left this site rot by its own. Nevertheless, I'll post more often here once landing in Adelaide which will be in less than a month time.

Have any of you come across the term "spinocerebellar degeneration"? It is a terrible disease where the cerebellum of the brain gradually deteriorates the person's nerves gradually to the point where the victim cannot walk, speak, write, or eat. A cruel disease, as it does not affect the mind in the least.

Based on a true story, One Litre of Tears is about the life story Kitou Aya (1962-1988) a girl who had an incurable disease called Spinocerebellar Degeneration Disease (also known as SCA type 2; spinocerebellar ataxia type 2)at a young age of 15. Although the girl in the drama - Ikeuchi Aya, lived in the 21st century, her character was based on Kitou Aya's life, how she struggled and fought her disease and how she wrote her deepest thoughts until the last day she could hold a pen. Before she died, her writings were published including the poems she wrote while she is staying in a school for the disabled. This gave new hopes to people who suffers the same disease as she did and soon Aya received letters of appreciation and thanks from those people. At the age of 25, she succumbed herself into a sleep where she could no longer feel any pain.
The book that later followed entitled “One Liter of Tears" has sold over 1.1 million copies.

Source; http://wiki.d-addicts.com/1_Litre_no_Namida

I know its quite slow for me to notice this drama as it came out in late 2005 and I just finished watching it last week. Probably one of the best japanese drama I've watched so far. Upon reaching episode 6 till the end of the series, my eyes were watery. Looking at how she struggles in her daily life taught me to appreciate everything I have now and not to be greedy, demanding for more.

Some of my favourite quotes from the drama
- Why did the disease choose me? I cannot carry it, if it’s just for the word “fate”.

- “As I think about the past,
the tears will come out.
Reality is too cruel, too brutal.
I don’t even have the right to dream.
As I think about the future,
the tears will come out again.”

- Even though I have been hurt before by those heartless glares this also helped me to understand that around me, there still exists some gentle glares. Therefore, I definitely won't run away. That's what I'll do. Definitely. Always.

Review of the drama can be found in http://www.jdorama.com/drama.959.htm

2 Down, 2 To Go

2009-11-19T15:07:00.000-08:00

Done two of my papers on the 16th November, Monday. They were Buyer Consumer Behavior, BCB and Derivatives and Securities Markets, DSM. BCB was at 9.00a.m. and it was seriously easier than I thought and hopefully, I can score in that subject. Then it was DSM at 6.30p.m. and it was tough. One thing good is unlike my previous semester papers, I have enough time to complete both the papers. Hopefully, I do not have to race against time for my both upcoming papers too.

As the DSM paper ends at 9.00p.m., I decided to stay in my friend's house and took a bus home. Now, I have to take a train to two stops before my destination and transfer to a bus because there were construction going on. Anyway, I took a direct bus home from the city around 9.35a.m. which took me around 45 minutes. And I manage to capture a spring scenery, less than 1km from my house. That's because the weather that day was around 20 degrees.

Note: Click the picture and click one more time to enlarge to it's maximum

However, the weather yesterday topped at 42.6 degrees around 4.00p.m. and I was lucky enough to be in the air conditioned library. I've been traveling to the library everyday to study and escape the heatwave. I wonder why is only Adelaide caught with the heatwave? I've checked other states like Melbourne or Brisbane and it weren't as bad as here.

As mentioned in my previous post, I've went through two house inspection for rent and within a week, both the houses were not available. I wonder where should I stay next year if this continues? Anyway, I should be more worried about the upcoming exams before this matter.

4 days till exam is over and 19 days till I'm back in Malaysia.

Post number 10

2009-11-09T20:41:00.000-08:00

With the temperature marking between 25 to 39 degrees here in Adelaide, I was perspiring from head to toe. Even Malaysia's temperature topped at 37 degrees (I think). Seriously, from my head to toe and I wonder how people survive without fan or air-cond with the current condition. Anyhow, I barely manage to pass through few days like this until yesterday night. It was like hell for me with my whole body began to perspire even after taking shower 3 times a day!!!

Lastly, I could not tolerate any longer with the heat affecting my studies by burning my brain cells. I Google up for pedestal fan around Alberton and found a shop selling them for AUD $19.98 (the cheapest) within walking distance. Decided to walk there next morning. Upon reaching there, I demand for it from a sales girl but she said that it was sold out yesterday. My morale fall tremendously and I asked the store's catalogue. Found another fan which cost AUD $29.98 but it was out of stock too. Then, I demand for the cheapest fan or mini air conditioner and she showed me a AUD$39.95. I'm not going to waste my effort walking under 30++ degrees for 15 minutes and not purchasing anything.

And I gambled my way home because I lost the paper that used to point me the way to the shop.

Here it is

Within 5 minutes, it was assembled.

Moreover, the number of insects began to outnumber humans. Upon stepping out from my house, A few flies swarming around my face and it's really annoying. Of course, my bedroom too became nest for those creatures. Caught more than 5 insects for the past week. 3 spiders included and mind you, the spiders here are 3 times the size of spiders in Malaysia.

New food for the past week. Coles Marinated chicken+ bok choy + rice.

Alright, one more hour and I'll have to travel alone to Clarence Park for my new house's inspection. Hopefully everything is fine there.

Random

2009-11-03T20:36:00.001-08:00

Nothing special or much happened for the past week. Nevertheless, exam is drawing nearer so does going back to Malaysia. Time to buckle up my studies and might be cramming in the university's library like the past semester before exam period.

Some random moments in the past week:
Went to uni's computer lab and printed all my notes on Sunday. Surprisingly, the lab is half full and I head to the library to revise lecture 1 to 3 for ICBM (International Currency & Banking Markets). From ground floor to level5, it was full with people and decided to head back to the computer lab.

I think we just skipped one week of spring last week. The temperature marks between 20 to 27 degrees. However, its back to normal now around 12 to 21 degrees. For me, the weather now best where it's not too cold or too hot.

Found this from a friend's blog
Rules:
It's harder than it looks! Copy to your own note, erase my answers, enter yours, and tag 20 people. Use the first letter of your name to answer each of the following questions. They have to be real...nothing made up! If the person before you had the same first initial, you must use different answers. You cannot use any word twice and you can't use your name for the boy/girl name question.

1. What is your name: Kenneth Leong

2. A four Letter Word: Keep

3. A boy's Name: Kevin Cheng

4. A girl's Name: Kim Tae-yeon

5. An occupation: Kindergarten Teacher

6. A color: Key Lime

7. Something you'll wear: Key Lock necklace

8. A food: Kentucky Fried Chicken

9. Something found in the bathroom: Knob

10. A place: Korea

11. A reason for being late: Keep having traffic jam

12. Something you'd shout: Kill the mosquito!!

13. A movie title: King Arthur

14. Something you drink: Key Lime Martini

15. A musical group: K-On

16. An animal: Kangaroo

17. A street name: King William Street

18. A type of car: KIA Matrix - driving that in Malaysia

19. The title of a song: Kiss the Rain

Back

2009-10-26T19:38:00.001-07:00

Sorry for my long absence for the past week. The internet connection was down as we overused it again. For the first time, the upload rather than the download usage were exceeded.

Nothing much happened for the past week except that I've done almost all of my assessments for this semester. There will be one though tomorrow, BCB (Buyer Consumer Behavior) Test.

Take a look at my table when assignments were on

Some food for the past week
Fish and Chips (Fish Fingers and Frozen Fries)

Egg + Lettuce + Chicken + Rice = Satisfying hunger

Once again, I'm the only male student for DSM (Derivatives and Securities Markets) class for the past consecutive 3 weeks. Feels a little alienated.

Exam will be in 20 days time. Hopefully, I'll pass this semester without any failures. Many people said I've got thinner. Is it true? Let me know if you see me face to face in Malaysia.

Found this interesting in soompi forum.

YOUR AGE BY CHOCOLATE MATH:
Don't tell me your age; you'd probably lie anyway-
but the Hershey Man will know!

YOUR AGE BY CHOCOLATE MATH

It takes less than a minute . Work this out as you read .

1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you
would like to have chocolate (more than once but less than 10)

2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold)

3. Add 5

4. Multiply it by 50 -- I'll wait while you get the calculator

5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1759 ..If you haven't, add 1758.

6.. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.

You should have a three digit number.
The first digit of this was your original number.

(i.e., how many times you want to have chocolate each week).

The next two numbers are
YOUR AGE! (Oh YES, it is!!!!!)

THIS IS THE ONLY YEAR (2009) IT WILL EVER WORK,
SO SPREAD IT AROUND WHILE IT LASTS.

Mamak Night

2009-10-19T19:59:00.000-07:00

Will be quite busy these few weeks till 28th October (my last assessment) and will be having cramming at home studying for finals in less than a month. Thus, will not be updating frequently.

Anyway, my housemates and I attended Mamak Night held in UniSA-City East campus. Had nasi lemak, tom yum, roti canai and teh tarik. Overall was a great night.

PS: click picture to enlarge

Pretib, Me and Bak

Group Photo

Bigger Group

MoonCake Festival

2009-10-03T22:09:00.000-07:00

I don't really remember much about how I used to celebrate the moon cake festival but I'll definitely remember this year's one. What's more, it's been ages since I last tasted moon cake because I don't fancy them until yesterday night out. I was invited by Suzanne Siah to Elder Park at 5.00pm with her friend. Little did I know, her friend were another 4 girls!!! They were all from University of Adelaide I guess and thus, my network of friends grew larger. Another that surprises me is that an architecture student needs to study for 6 years having and no final exams!!! Imagine studying applied finance for 6 years (12 semesters) and now I'm already struggling in my 4th semester.

Kids performance

The day began to dark

Huge panda lantern

Us

The event ended with fireworks performance

Quite beautiful

Thanks to Suzanne's friend for this moon cake that was shared between 6 people (Sorry I'm bad in remembering names in first time meeting)

Gather round to eat the moon cake

Leaving Elder's Park

Okay, I've been out everyday since coming back from Melbourne because it seems that I can't sit in the house the whole day!!!

Melbourne Trip

2009-09-29T17:42:00.000-07:00

Sitting in front of my laptop feeling a little bored here after stucked in Financial Planning Group Assignment. Life these days had been just like a ferris wheel. It just rotates from sleeping to cooking to eating to watching drama.

Anyway, I just came back from Melbourne last week with a heavy unexpected cost fall upon me and my friends.

The journey started off with a little complications about the car and to cut the story short, we had no choice but to rent 2 cars. Starting the journey with smiles upon everyone's face, we came across Princess Highway along the coastal road. There is one area where it feels like we are driving in the safari as seen on the national geographic channel.

PS - Click on the pictures to enlarge
Our first stop
2 Cars

Stephanie, Me, Kah Leong, Hsu Zhen, Y-Han

Tulip Garden under Mount Dandenong

Quite nice place

Had the famous fish and chips - waiting for 30 minutes to get a table

Next day, journey throughout the Great Ocean Road. Along the way, our luck went down the drain with getting fine by traffic police for speeding. I thought we will be given a warning as this is the first time getting fined but the man took out his pen and began to jot down on a piece of paper the car details while questioning us. Then, the piece of paper was handed to us and a shocking amount of AUD $234 was on it.

The first stop on the way to visit the Tweleve Apostles

Me and part of the 12

Nice scenery coming back

Next day, we walked arounf the city and had the best dinner specially thanks to Adam. The Thai food was amazing and mouth watering and he even brought us to Silicka beach to watch little penguins comes out at night time

Me, Y-Han, Bak, Adam, Stephanie, Pretib

And I bought shades - AUD $20.00

There are more pictures but is not uploaded by my friend to the computer yet...

Have not been exercising lately causing me to be more lazy...gotta flex my muscles tomorrow morning!! Looks like winter is coming back with strong winds blowing with the temperature stays between 15 to 9 degrees.

Wee 6 and the past

2009-08-31T23:48:00.001-07:00

Its been a while since I last wrote here. Without realizing it, its already week 6 in my fourth semester in UniSA program. Moreover, its already half a year since I arrived here and it's just 3 more months till this semester ends. With 7 of us in this house, the electric bill for just one month reached an incredibly huge amount, AUD438.50!!! In addition, we exceeded the internet usage a few days before the due date and that's when the assignments were due. Speaking of assignments, I had an extremely hectic schedule last week. It began with ICBM assignment on Monday, BCB Test on Wednesday, FP presentation on Thursday, FP Test and Assignment on Friday. Overall, I knew I did badly in ICBM assignment and BCB Test and hopefully, the others were alright. That's the reason I never updated this blog for a while.

Anyway, attended Sara's party at Mile End. I finally learned how to bake cupcakes. They were easy as ABC as long we follow the instructions.

Artistic work

The tradition - hard liquor. Realize that cheese don't go well with hard liquor. Had a small tummy ache after just 3 cups.

Some new home cooked foods for the past weeks

Heart shaped Egg

French fries

Breakfast

Rice+Egg+Chicken+Lettuce+Wedges

You guys probably wonder what I've been doing for my past time here. I've been watching lots of drama lately. This worsen my eyesight. Definitely have to wear my specs whenever I'm in the lecture hall or tutorial classes or I might be seeing blur images from a far.

It's really rare to post a picture of myself so here goes
Without specs

With specs

That's all I could remember. Probably there are many small things happened for the past few weeks that I have forgotten.

Anyway, came across Dorothy's post and finds it interesting. Check it out.

08/08/09

2009-08-08T04:03:00.001-07:00

Week 2 in my fourth semester of UniSA had already ended. Homework began to pile up and my very first assignment for Buyer Consumer Behavior semester is due in week 4. I had a look at the question and lucky it was not really tough but I know I cannot take it lightly. This semester proves to be much tougher with more presentations and assignments ahead and hopefully I can manage them well.

Some dishes I frequently cooked these days.

By the way, my friends and I went to Glenelg beach on last weekend.
I tried fishing and played volleyball.
We were suppose to catch fish but we caught a baby crab.

Recall

2009-07-31T17:42:00.000-07:00

I'm really sorry to dear readers or people who came across this page for my long absence. This is because I was too busy moving to a new accommodation and it takes 10 to 20 working days to set up the Internet connection. And yes, I've finally got my own room after 4 months living illegally in the living hall under my friend's house.

Got my 3rd semester result last 2 weeks ago and lucky I managed to passed all the four subjects especially IBPF (Investment Banking & Project Finance). Anyway, let the pictures to the talking and a little explanation along the way.

Would like to thank Suzanne and Stephanie for these delicious homemade dumplings

The new house (The worst condition compared to the neighbours along the road)

Rented a van to move our luggage and furniture over as it was unfurnished. Credits to Pretib for becoming our driver for consecutive 2 days.

Number plate almost hit jackpot

The house which was unfurnished, We had to shop at IKEA for furnitures

Stuffs from IKEA

Of course after completing the semester, my housemates and I enjoyed ourselves with food
Pork Chop rice

Fish Ball noodle

Mixed fried rice

Sweet and Sour chicken rice

The room was empty at first and these are my luggage

Completing the bed frame

Look really empty right?

My drawer for my clothes

My chilling spot

Thanks Sara and Seng Kheng for the chocolate cake. Its been a while since I last ate cakes

Went to the wildlife park under MYSA (Malaysia Student Association)
Peacock

Ostrich

Forgotten what i was

Enter into the kangaroo's farm

I think they are wallabies

Not sure what is it but its cute

The noisy ones - goose

Emu i guess

The lazy one - Crocodile

Sea otters

Hamsters

Not sure what type of bird

Parrot

On the way to the next destination, manage to capture a beautiful scenery

Next destination was the toy factory - below, the largest rocking horse

Last destination was the whispering wall where one person can whisper to the wall and another person on the other end will be able to listen.

The other side of the wall

Fried bean curd with pork belly with rice

Bought this to accommodate me

Anyway, watched Goong and I definitely recommend everyone to watch it. Fell in love with their songs too.

Perhaps Love - Howl & J

You and I are Fools - Stay

Parrot - Howl

First week of the semester has already begun and I've attended 2 lectures already. On the train to the city, I've noticed that Australians have the habit of reading where most of them were reading a book while waiting to reach their destination. Unlike Malaysians, I notice that we spent more time on our mobile phones texting.

Second half

2009-06-30T18:36:00.000-07:00

Firstly, I'm really sorry that I have forgotten my old account email and password of http://lettersfromadelaide.blogspot.com/. Thus, I made another blog account.

Time passed really fast. Half of the year seems to passed just like that. I've encountered 3 exam papers and there another one coming up tomorrow at 2.00p.m (12.30p.m. Malaysia time). So far, all the papers I've gone through don't provide enough time for me being typically slow in everything. One disadvantage for me compared my friends is that Australian citizen of permanent resident does not have extra 30 minutes for each paper they sat. Anyway, the first two papers, Introduction to Law and Business Information System does not really prove any problem for me but the paper I sat yesterday, Investment Banking & Project Finance gave me a big headache although it is an open book exam. I know I've not tried my best for that subject and hopefully I might be able to pass the subject. Even my peers and seniors said that the paper yesterday was one the toughest paper they've encountered so far. Another paper for tomorrow, Market Analysis should prove not much problem for me because in my opinion, this is most probably the easiest subject for this semester.

Anyway, after being here for quite a long time, my housemates and I decided to buy ourselves fish and not always chicken anymore.
Our first time frying fish till golden brown.

To made up the long absence of posts in my previous blog, here are some pictures of food I've eaten
Homemade yong chow fried rice (ingredients include rice, long beans, chicken, egg, onion, garlic, salt, oil, pepper and sesame oil)

Dumplings

Ice cream

Pork-chop rice

Teriyaki fish

In a few days time, we'll be moving into our new house and we need to buy ourselves, fridge, microwave, tables and chairs. There are many things to do for sure such as cleaning the house, setting up Internet connection and changing bank account and or details to this address, 59, Buller Terrace, Alberton, South Australia 5014, Australia. One thing for sure, there's a convenience store located just a few minute walk to our new house. Got to go now to meet up with the lanlord of the new house in a few minutes time to discuss about electricity and other things.