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 Hey guys, how have u been? There is somethng important here that I have to update about my personal life. I am not proud of it, but I've just broken up with Woon Han a few days ago. I don't know how I got by for these past few days, but I'm doing fine. Nothing to worry about. It seems ironic because we just had our 2-year anniversary of our relationship. That's abt it. I don't feel like commenting anything about the break-up, just think it's better for us to lead our own paths, from a long-term point of view.

1st pic= 12th College Cafeteria,it consists of Malay,Indian and Chinese food. Now it has TV installed, it's also the place where Wei Pei, Pei Shan,Jane and I watched the world cup final between Italy and France from the projector.

2nd pic=Court where basketball and futsal can be played.

3rd = That's the lake we soaked in, it has magnificient lights at night.

1st pic = my room is like that after eliminating the colourful curtains and bedsheets.

2nd pic= Nice garden between Block C and D (Only for female residents)

3rd pic= Equipped with Astro. Thanks to Astro or else i would have missed the finale match between Italy and France!

Yo guys, haven't updated my blog for a long time!! I'm now in the cybercafe of Kolej Kediaman 12, the best college in University Malaya. I feel really relieved after the orientation week,because during thta week, there wasnt enough time to eat and rest.And on the last day of the orientation in the Kembara Malam, we actually had to soak ourselves in the stinky, muddy lake just between the blocks of KK 12! We were instructed to wear fully-covered shoes (no slippers allowed), and mud was entering our shoes thoroughly. I don't even feel like wearing back the shoe again.There's still so much sand inside even though i've washed it so many times. But there was a fun part of it, at least on the KK 12 residents got the 'lucky chance' to enter the lake, it's been the tradition for freshies to enter the lake before they can officially call themsleves '12th College residents' ~ The PMs (Pembantu Mahasiswa/wi) were very helpful along the way, though i never bothered to ask for their assistance anyway. There's a PM called Adam who is a 杜德伟look-alike. But i find PM Yong Tat荣达 being the most helpful and sporting one!Most importantly,the good-looking one! There was 1 part where we walked around the campus in themiddle of the night and went to 'sub' other colleges( shouting slogans like 12th, 12th, 12th, Yo, Yo,Yo,Kolej Lain, Poyo Poyo Poyo!). Most of the time i think we were 'shiok sendiri', because they didn't respond to our 'sub'. Imagine walking from12th college ,passing by 5th college,Academic of Islamic Studies and in the map you'll see there's suddenly no buildings along the road. It's because it's Bukit Aman (also known as Bukit Cinta). Our PM told us if u parked your car beside the road on Bukit Cinta, you'll be halau by the Keselamatan Polis of UM, you should know the reason behind this better than me, haha! .Then we walked down the hill and went to 'sub' at 8th College, 3rd College and lastly 2nd College.

It looks like a short distance to walk a circle in the campus of UM, but actually it's very far! Eg: from 12th College to my faculty ( Faculty of Built Environment) takes about 15 minutes. I find myself leading a healthy lifestyle after living 2 weeks in UM, everyday 15 minutes of walk, i'm sure it's a good form of exercise because in JB we rely a lot on cars to go to our destination, even if it's a trip to a near by convenient store. If the time of our lectures are more than 3 hours apart, we'll go back to our college to rest and take our bathe, that means 1 hour of walking in a day alone... Thank God we don't have classes on Friday,or else we would have to wait til Friday to go back to our hometown.

Anyway,those are the higlights of my Orientation week,(sorry if it made you yawn_+_*). Hope you'll give me some comments, whether good or bad! Thanks a lot! ( Next episode - 12th College facilities and Estate Management) 

     Hello, to those who have been reading my blogs, thanks a lot for your support. i do not reckon i have interesting, heart-melting stories to share with you, but i'm satisfied as long i share my daily normal-to-hell stories with you...

     I haven't posted a blog entry for about a month, so what have i been doing lately?  After meeting with Bryan Teu (see previous blog entry), i started applying Degree courses on NUrsing, so i applied for quite a few unis such as University of Tasmania, Curtin University of Technology & Southern Cross University (the later has mid-year intakes). Unfortunately, no news heard from Curtin & Southern Cross yet, maybe it's because i haven't took my IELTS exam yet.

     A few days ago, i received an E-mail from Uni of Tasmania, announcing that i had been accepted to a Nursing degree course in Launceston, Tasmania. This also included a scholarship of 25% deduction from my tuition fees. After reading the e-mail, i was seethed with excitement. The total tuition fee for the 3-year degree course is AUD$ 40,500, after deducting 25%, the total tuition fee i have to pay is AUD$30,375, convert it to Ringgit is AUD$30,375 x 3(+,-)=RM 91,125. My dad has to pay a total of RM 91,125 for the 3-year degree course for my studies in Tasmania, Australia. Before this, Monash Uni of Malaysia offered Biotechnology to me, if i want to accept the offer, i'll have to pay for my 1st semester fees, approximately RM 15,000 (per semester, including lab fees). There are 6 semester in 3 years, RM 15,000 x 6 = RM 90,000.* Note the figures in red, if you ask me, which one will i choose, of course i'll choose to study in Tasmania , Australia. The tuition fee for 3 years compared to Biotechnology and Nursing doesn't vary a lot, hopefully i'll be granted scholarships when i get there! According to Shao Hern, Tasmania is a rural and remote ---> super 'ulu'的地方. Well, most importantly, i'm not interested in laboratory work and i can't imagine having to do research using all kinds of high-tech gadgets, looking into microscopes and experimenting with samples, DNAs and all that kind of biology stuff. I know myself well enough i'm not a 'lab-genius' who likes fiddling with test tubes and scientific instruments. I started thinking and thinking... and i told myself i shouldn't waste my dad's money to study something i'm not interested in, although ' Biotechnology' is highly sought after by many undergraduates nowadays, it's the 'in' thing to study at the moment. Moreover, Biotechnology sounds nice too...

      The course will commence in February 2007, so i will have to wait another half a year or so. I've wasted so much time by just 'waiting' to get into university. But the letter mentioned i'll be graduated in 31st December 2009. When my dad knew that i got the offer from Uni of Tsmania, he was thrilled and phoned his friend ( he has a son studying medicine at Uni of Tasmania) to tell him about the good news and asked him how this small town ' Launceston" is. My dad even started planning that he will visit friends in Melbourne, Wellington & Sydney, but ma and i said my dad 想太多了! I'll still apply for other universities for the Bachelor of Nursing course, not giving up even though i got 1 offer. Many people will ask whether i like this course or not? i will answer them," i'll definitely choose Nursing over Biotechnology, because i prefer dealing with people rather than high-tech equipments. Who would ever think o taking a degree course in Nursing, because diploma "够吃了!" (say it loudly in Hokkien)

      My grandma thinks it's a dirty job, and told me being a teacher would be a wiser decision! But after being a GSTT (Guru Sandaran Tidak Terlatih) for approximately 5 months, i think i didn't learn much besides the failure of education policy in Malaysia. Kids are being tormented with so much homework, exercises on papers, extremely heavy schoolbags, after-school tuitions and expecting high academic achievements! i wonder how i went through 6 years of hell in primary school. The kids in the 'not-so-good" classes, "只是马来西亚教育政策的牺牲品罢了!" Not everyone is born with intelligent brains. In conclusion, i find myself learning practically nothing as being a GSTT for 5 months.

    Uncle Tom (not Tom & Jerry 的 Tom) once said, " this profession will take you anywhere in the world! It's a passport to any country." Sounds too good to be true, bit i really hope to see more of the world when i'm still young. Give me any comments okay?i really hope to hear from you! Still dunno what Malaysia Uni will offer to me, better be something good!

I wasn't offered any courses by NUS, i expected that coming to me, based on what reason did they want to offer me a place, even though my first choice wasn't the hottest course around - real estate. I felt quite depressed for a few hours but i got better after that. Friends who had better grades than me wasn't offered any courses too...so  i shouldn't be whining and complaining. I felt worthless but regained confidence since i thought that i couldn't change the facts. i'm waiting for 1st June so that i could appeal again for the course, but i can guess that my chances are very slim, B+ in Chemistry and B in my Maths T, i don't know where do i stand! Wee Ping and Shi Yun got into science fac,one of the biggest facs in NUS, can accomodate about 1000+ students, congrats to them...

My family had lunch with previous 国会议员张诗登, and his son Bryan Teu Lay Leng, studying Master of Architecture in Unimel ...Here's the full story about him:-

JOHOR BARU: Two years ago, Bryan Teu Lay Leng, then 25, had the world before him and“ a job he had always wanted and a girlfriend he loved.

Then a stroke paralysed part of his body and blinded his right eye and he lost his well-paying architect job. He let his girlfriend go and slipped into depression. cont…

i really respect him for not giving up his life and is willing to fight his illness no matter the odds are against him. He told me,"依文, 不要放弃任何机会,每间大学都申请,无论你的成绩多么不好! 如果他们offer course 给你,到时不是大学选我,而是我选大学!"

"现在我们会华文的,人家在这里把我们当草;在澳洲呢?你会华文和英文,你就是个双语人才,他们把你当宝都来不及呢! 你应该庆幸你是华人,因为中国的崛起让外国人不再用歧视的眼光看我们."

His words made an impression to me, and gave me a little hope to try things out-to think out of the box~ There are plenty of choices in life...it's whether you're given a chance to try it or you're apprehensive to try something that your friends that you've been with such a long time.

Countinue next time...

Actually, i received this news on Thursday night, 13th April. It read

We refer to your application for admission to the Nanyang Technological University in academic year 2006-07

We have carefully considered your application. However, we regret to inform you that your application has not been successful. Admission to our undergraduate courses is highly selective in view of the large number of applications we received and the limited places that we can offer to foreign students.

We appreciate the time and effort you put in submitting your application. We thank you for your interest in our university and sincerely wish you every success in your pursuit for higher education.

My Choices were:-

Everything went well, except for some really embarrassing moments. Goik Mooi and I had to urinate(to get our urine tested for sugar,albumin and ME, dunno what it is) for 2 times because we actually went to the wrong toilet to get our business done the first time. Instead, we had to get it done at a place called "Tandas Makmal", who would called a toilet as a lab? Weird!?! So, next time if you happen to be there for medical check-up, especially for 临教.Remember to go to a place called "Tandas Makmal" to get your fresh sample of -ahem*--> urine !  *Laughters*