Birthdays...

On the eve of my sister's 16th birthday,

I just found a new accquaitance of mine was born on the

SAME DAY, SAME MONTH, SAME YEAR as me!!!!!!

HOW EXCITING!!!

HAPPY 16th BIRTHDAY JONETTE LEE SHUXIA!

Now, back to unexciting assignments.... 4 more hours before its due... gotta finish it by 6 am... its 4 45 am in the morning btw... heheheheh

Another week has passed...

The week just went pass in a whirlwind...

But its a been a good week...

Its the first time in my uni life that I managed to sort of complete an assignment a week before its due. Knowing how last min I am, this has gotta be a whopping first! Hehe... prob due to the fact that I have 2 assignments due next week and I havent started on the other one yet... oh well... another all nighter pulled on thursday I reckon...

I did a bit of catching up with some of my friends this week.

Went for dinner with Kaori and Rob. They took me to this Jap restaurant (its called Ha-Lu) near their place in Leederville. According to them, all the food there is nice. And they were right! A few things I've learned about Japanese restaurants. They usually serve hot towels to customers (like in the aeroplane) together with the menu. I tried the tempura, a nabe pot with beef (according to kaori, a v. diff kind of japanese beef), a special homemade tofu, some salad with yummilicious dressing, and had desert (ice-cream with berries plus cornflakes!) It was the most authentic Japanese restaurant I ever tried. The menu came to a whopping $40 for each person! But justified for all its worth! Had so much to chat to with Rob, for the first time in person. We usually talk a lot on msn, but its good to just talk to him face to face so much. Nothing beats talking to a person when you can see his face! And I learnt that Kaori got bitten by a dog. And the interesting stories i hear in the emergency room in fremantle hospital at the wee hours on a saturday night. hehe...

had a bit of a chat with Suyen as well... my busy lezzie partner. After my dinner with Kaori and Rob, she came looking for me, but I was not around. Went to her place after dinner. Was chatting about her assignment and her plans during the holidays. All packed! Sighz.. dont think i'll be able to travel with her in Adelaide...

And for the most surprising part, gotta talk to Limin. And for the first time, we sat down to discuss about our crazy stats assignment. I talked to her for a total of 2 hours last night. And the familiarity feeling came back... A good feeling I would say... like I feel totally comfortable talking to her, just like how I would talk to Wan'er, Eme, Mag, Tian & Yu. Reminds me of the endless hours of chat with my spore friends...

And I just put down the phone with Noelle. This girl, my psychology assignment-lab-lecture partner, whom I grew so close to this year. I am so glad she's in my life right now... Becos of her, doing psych is so much more enjoyable... we would discuss assignments together... chat together.. bitch together... And we just talked on the phone for 2 hours. Talking to her is also like talking to waner... We just click.... oh girl, I am so waiting for exams to be over! Then we can go sing Ktv and have jap and korean food!

Not to mention talking to my housemates more this week... Talking about my CFP tutor, Jason's master's coursemate and the adelaide, tasmania and melbourne trip this winter break! Its almost confirmed! I'll be going to these 3 states for 2 weeks... I am so excited and I cant wait!!! Woo hoo!

Alrights.. I hope I can pull through my next assignment... Till then... more crazy weeks to come.... I've got a paper on the 9th of June, 2 papers on the 13th of June, and my last paper on the 13th of June...

so envious of my spore friends... all has finished exams... like kian.. hehe... I see all online now... for the past few months, I havent been able to talk to anyone cos all are not online... wanna know how u guys are doing now! So tag me and let me know how you guys are!

I've been tagged... hence 10 interesting things about myself!

hehehe... I've just been tagged by Jason.... and I'm quite sian from doing my finance tute, so here goes... 10 interesting things about myself which I bet some of you dont know!!!

1) When I cant go to sleep, I often blast music in my Discman (now MP3) player to sleep! And it helps! My fav music to blast to sleep is Linkin Park. Woo hoo! Play that meterora album man!

2)I go to the toilet v. often. And I mean v. often. I can go to the toilet at 8 pm, and 5 mins later, i'll go to the toilet again. Friends often say I have a bladder problem. I think i need to get my bladder checked.

3) ACcording to my dad, being a Lee family and a hakka is a minority in spore. And u're pretty lucky if you can find someone that belongs to both. I found 2. One is Ryan, my ex-psychology group mate. Like me, he used to visit our hakka hometown in China. The other, whom my dad told me, was Lee Kuan Yew. Cool eh? I am somehow related to him!

4) I have heaps of cousins. My dad has 13 siblings. I cant remember how many ppl there are in my dad's family. More than 100, i think. Including my new born nieces and nephews.

5) Well, I used to be in the choir in sec school.

6) I learnt drumming a year ago for a short 2 months. So I can now play the piano, the guitar and drum. What's left is learning how to turn tables, which is what i want to achieve before I turn 30.

7) Okies. This might be a little bit embarrassing. When I was in primary school, I was soo stressed about my final exams that I had insomnia. I would then go over to sleep with my mum, and she had to pat my backside (like a baby) to sleep. And I could only fall asleep an hour or 2 before I had to wake up again. It was dreadful I tell ya. It happened for a good 3 years of my life (pri 4 to 6... haiz... damn streaming and PSLE... I cant help it... I was put in the best pri sch in spore.. the pressure was there...)

8) The more encouragement I get, the better I perform. I cant succumb to pressure, but with adequate compliments, assurances, and nudging, i perform better!

9) I wont be able to survive a day being alone by myself. I need to talk to someone at least in a day. So putting me in isolation is the worst torture for me, ever....

10) This is somehow related to no 1. I fantasize being a rock chick, jamming the electric guitar away. The louder, the more deafening, the more metal it is, the more i like. I really hope I can play in a band one day, but this doesnt seem possible in reality.

Yeah, that's it folks! 10 things about myself =) hAve a good day tomorrow you all!

Mum's always right =)

I got back from dinner at 9 plus today. Picked up my phone and tried to call home. Phone was engaged. Called 3 times. Still engaged. Gave up and sent mum an e-card instead. Told sis on msn to tell mum tomorrow. sis said if she remembers, she'll tell her. Cant wish mum on that day now.

Anyways, I've been wanting to blog about my mum for a v. long time. Hehe... funny huh? Well, its only been these few years when i am a thousand miles away from mummy that i realised one thing: SHE'S ALWAYS RIGHT ABOUT ME.

It sounds creepy, scary, intimidating, all sorts that you can think of. But reflecting upon it, its 100% true.

A few years back while I had my JC ball, mum went shopping with me and chose my ball dress for me. A simple black dress. Yet she told me how to accessorise myself to look good. Mum was right. I did look good, I have to admit. Even friends taught so.

When I was in uni and I faced huge friendship problems, mum taught me how to be a more tactful person. Mum taught me how to be a more lovable person. Mum knew me inside out. She knew how i was like, how i behaved, what i should do to make life better. Mum's suggestions were always right. Her logic is un-arguable. Yet mum is ever so supportive of all my decisions, esp coming to aus to study and furthermore assuring i would have adequate finances to do a double degree.

Most of all, mum was right in how I could make my life better in Aus. Perhaps mum did understand how i felt when i was in perth. But mum had her own problems and couldnt help as much. However, i couldnt help mum as much. I tried to help her by hiding most of my problems from her. Assuring her that I was doing alright in Perth.

I did tell mum eventually how life was like and she did give me a few pointers to make my life better in Perth.

I wanna say this so much. And I wanna publicly declare it on my blog.

Mummy, thanks for all the advice. Thanks for the encouragement to join iss. Meeting the current iss committee and working with them has been the best part of my uni life. Thanks for allowing me to work, after acknowledging that I could handle my studies. But most of all, thanks for giving me the ability to buy my "baby"... You have no idea how much joy having my baby, which I now name NG. I love it v. much and I will take care of it.

One thing I learnt. Listen to my mummy. She's always right. And now, I wish I was beside her at the very instant, talking to her.....

Happy mother's day! To all mothers! =)

officially the worst day of my semester..

I just handed in a screwed up group assignment. Groupmates who arent collarborative. Ended up doing most of the assignment. Groupmates who did stuff last min. Then gave it to me without any refrencing. Spent the whole morning doing the assignment. Felt so drained after that. Couldnt even do my lab. Went into iss room. All cold faces. Went to lab. I see unappreciative faces. Went home. Felt worse. Took all calls today. None sounded happy.

In times like these, i really appreciate the good friends that I have. Thanks Noelle for jiayouing for me yest. Thanks mag for lending a listening ear as ever. Thanks Jason, for making an effort to help me proof read my assignment. Just the effort of saying "yeah, i'll help you read it" and not say "oh, I cant help you, sorry."

Feel like shit today...

ooh... asian food at northbridge!

I felt so happy today even though i only slept for 5 hours last night..

My tutorial ended at 9 am in the morning. As always, I'm looking for stuff to do. So, I decided to go to northbridge to get lunch and bring it for stall duty, which starts at noon. I went to EMMA'S SEAFOOD, where they sell yong tau foo stuff and also asian products. I went to the cooked food section and saw that they had seafood noodles, meaning they had your usual yong tau foo stuff such as fishball, fishcakes, wanton etc plus mee pok noodles! I havent touched mee pok since i got back to perth! Then something caught my eye... CHEE CHEONG FUN!!! WOw! I havent had chee cheong fun in ages as well! The spore style where they had dark sweet sauce over the chee cheong fun. I decided to get that for dinner, since I was going to catch spiderman 3 in the evening and i have no time to cook (I'm working in the afternoon). Woo hoo!

After which, I went to DA SHI JIE, this taiwanese shop which sells mainly taiwanese products, some of which i've never seen before in spore!!! I decided to get a ginseng crysenthemum tea (bottled one which only costs $1.20) and a red tea (also bottled for the price of $1.20)! haha, so all in all, i spent $12 for both lunch and dinner. All asian food and yummilicious! I felt soooo satisfied. I then went to buy meat for the house. After I went to another asian supermarket (VHT), i came across this packet of mabo tofu sauce. Suddenly, i had this urge to cook mabo tofu for dinner tomorrow. I couldnt find the silken tofu in VHT, so i walked all the way back (5 mins walk) to EMMA's to get the tofu.

I was grinning on the way home. I felt sooo happy. I havent had a weekday to myself for the past month. Time to leisurely shop around at northbridge, and to buy such cheap and yummulicious food! Haha.. I was singing and grooving to all the songs played on the radio. I hoped no one saw what i was doing... hehe

tumbulgum farm

I am happy i gave up 4 hours of my pay ($80!!!) for a trip to tumbulgum farm.

I saw a cow named bernie, and bernice, my MBGU friend, milked bernie today! Hehe.. we were all teasing bernice today about bernie. It was hilarious..

Its the first time we had a bbq in our trip. all thanks to all the iss peeps/iss peep bfs/ISC peeps who helped to bbq! Hehe. Law, Kaysen, April, Joe (April's bebe), Ming, Manish, Adrianna, me , bernice were bbq the chickens, sausages, sweet potatoes, sweet corn and garlic bread the whole time! haha. It was heaps of fun!

There was a sheap shearing demonstration. Plus, there was an aboriginal video and I saw how the sheep dog, henry, gathered all the sheeps back to the farm. Coolness!

After lunch, i bought 2 packs of animal feed and shared it with everyone. I was feeding this cow and sheep who seemed to have flu. They had mucus outside their noses... ewww... i kept wondering whether i was goin to get flu after feeding them...

On a side note, my colleagues and I were talking about UWA at work. I told my supervisor (who likes the change guy) that I saw him at UWA! And guess what? He's doing law! woow... I asked my supervisor to go for it! And then when I was giving change to a customer, I dropped his change, a dollar coin, into his drink. He and his wife kept laughing and said that they'll find his drinks after they finish the beer. I couldnt stop laughing too! And then i met Jeanette! my ex mcw promos head! We went to have dinner at northbridge and chatted and chatted and chatted. It seemed like we've known each other for ages but we havent seen each other in a long time! hehehe..

so much fun yest and today! Yeah! a reward after handing in 2 dreadful assignments on friday!

Of Fun & Stress...

I got to see both sides of australian primary school children today.

Before I started work at Kumon, I saw students having a music class. They listened to pop music (I definitely remember hearing it on radio but i cant remember the name!) and they were singing and grooving to it. My supervisor's daughter (who happens to work in Kumon as well) told me she missed music classes. How fun is that! My immediate thought was that we could never get that in Singapore. Singapore music teachers will never let us hear pop music in music class. All we can listen to is probably "marikita singapura" or "chan-mail-chan" or "stand up for singapore"!!!

Whilst I was in the midst of marking papers at work, I heard my supervisor talking to a student about how he feels about his dad giving him so much work. As he was talking, he was sobbing away. Poor boy... He feels v. stressed about sch work already. Then I heard along the lines of "My dad wants me to excel in getting good grades to beat what he achieved in school. And he didnt do well at all in studies!" Oh boy.... I can never imagine an AUSTRALIAN BOY being stressed in PRIMARY SCHOOL! Oh well, he's an Asian. Maybe all asian parents feel the same way. I know I felt tremendously stressed when I was in Pri sch. I couldnt sleep at all before my exams. Mum had to sleep beside me so that I could fall asleep....

To me, pri school seem aeons away... now my goal is to get through my last hurdle in school life: UNI