Sucky Sunday
Well it did not start off sucky, only ended that way.

I did not go to church this morning as I had some pre-departure brieging organized by Jean Monteiro. It was to explain how to prepare for going overseas and what should be done then.

Shawn picked me up and we went there. We arrived at ten something and thought that we were late. We thought it started at 10am. When we got there, the staff was like 'Wow you're so early! It only starts at 11am' -_-"

So we set there for near one hour waiting for the event to start. Most other students brought their mothers and fathers along. Sheeesh. I noticed alot of the people there that attended were going to the same university as Shawn and me. Well I'm the kind of guy that judges a person on how loud they reveal themselves through their image and behaviour. Most of them I assume are from rich kids colleges like Taylors and Monash or some other rich man son college. Their dress style all the same, can't tell them apart. I didn't really even look at them anyway. Throughout the briefing we were bored, so we started cracking jokes about almost everything Jean Monteiro was saying.

Shawn made a card for Simone and asked me if I would like to sign it to, I did. Problem was I haven't written anything with pen/pencil for a long time so when I wrote on the card, it looked horrible.

When the briefing was over, Shawn and I remained at our seats hoping that the crowd would just bugger off. Suddenly one lady came to the front and talked to Jean. We heard her introducing herself as 'Wendy'. Both of us quickly rush out to the exit.
Now if you have not read one of my previous blogs, Wendy is the mother of that senior who graduated before me but is enrolling in my university same intake as me. She was trying to make friends for her son.

We waited till she left then we went back inside and waited till Simone handled all the other students and asked her about air tickets and medical checkup panel of doctors.

After that whole thing we went to Taman Tun to have lunch and then Shawn dropped me off home. While we were having lunch Bee Lee suddenly called me and ask if I was free for lunch.

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When I got home Bee Lee sms'ed me asking if I could go have tea wit him in the evening. I was already suspicious to why he suddenly wanted to talk to me. I was sleeping nicely when he rang my phone and woke me up. I felt stoned. So went with Bee Lee walking all around 1 Utama and he told me some stuff that might be useful for preparations of flying overseas. He kept on asking me if was going for Young Adults bible study this coming Friday, I he was not a spy for Enoch and the others to plan some surprise thing for me.

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Dinner time went to some chinese coffee shop with my uncle and his family. I do not understand why my mother must always try to pick a fight with me. When everything is settle and done about it, she will suddenly out of nowhere try to argue with me. This really pisses me off. Eventhough she does not have any real case against me she just can't seem to let it go. Everytime I prove her wrong and justify myself she will not accept it and will always abuse her position as a mother saying that she has the right to screw up my life because she is my mother.

I am glad I'm getting out of this house soon. I would be even happier if I had a better source of financial supply.

Fridaty 18th June 2004 : Graduation Day
I just got home from a dinner at Chillis. I've been going to Chillis too often these few months which is not good, as it is making me fatter and poorer.

Today was graduation day for me at Mantissa Institute. I am now officially a diploma holder (whoop dee doo). Well it was short and simple, just the way I like it. The dress code was for people to wear tie, coat, long sleeve shirt, slacks and formal shoes.

Did you really think that I would go by that? I wore Docker's Mobile Pants, those collarless shirt (so that I wouldn't need to wear a tie), a blazer and meh regular loafers. Well my pants hem were long so I had to fold it. Which made some of my lecturers annoyed.

I took some pictures of the event and even pictures of my friend and their parents. Oh well I'm always the photographer at functions and I believe no one can capture footages as unique as me. HAH.

I've looked at my photos and I think I really need to get pants that makes my legs look better. With 'fitting pants' they make my legs look small in proportion to my upper body. Looks stupid.

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Afzal planned to celebrate at night with all the other diploma graduates but it was either too far for them to come, or they are just plain stingy buggers. So ended up Afzal, Shawn and Me going to Chillis at 1 Utama.

Of all Chillis in the Klang Valley, this 1 Utama one has got to have the worst staff. The staff are newbies and always changing faces meaning they are not there often.
Now if you have been to Chillis, you would know that the waiters are friendly and would always check on your table every now and then to see if you need anything, usually a drink refill. This 1 Utama place, you gotta like attract their attention if you need anything. Some of them even pretend not to see or hope somebody else would do the job. Stupid people. I won't go to 1 Utama Chillis till they train their waiters properly and make sure they maintain the standard.

Thursday 17 June 2004
Today I went to collect my COE (confirmation of enrolment) from Simone from Jean Monteiro. She is a better and much pleasant person to deal with compared to the boss of the place namely, Jean Monteiro.

Man I really hate doing visa, it is so leceh.
First I gotta like go through all the details and fill up my data in the forms and right after that, I have to go for medical checkup within 48 hours. The list of doctors to go to will be provided but I do not know where yet. Sigh and tomorrow is Friday so I guess I have to do it next week. It is going to be real busy next week.

My flight date is on 9th of July, Friday 10am in the morning. I am destined to reach Melbourne at 7:30pm in the evening.

Shawn and I spent some time looking for apartments to rent while we're over there. Temporary accomodation might have to be reserved as we do not know what to do exactly now. Still waiting for email to be replied to Shawn to let us know if there is available apartments.

Tomorrow is graduation day... I'm not really looking forward to it.

Blazers = Over gaya
Argh that stupid muscle twisting crap happend to me again this morning, I still think its something or somebody making me wake up because my alarm clock was disabled half hour before this happened. This time the pain came very slowly but as I got up it vanished.

Went for dim sum with Enoch, at the same place I went with him and Alice last week. Stupid waiter, I ordered 'stir fried carrot cake' and he brought us 'deep fried carrot cake' the one like char kuay teow.

I wore my blazer to church today and turned alot of heads. Once again I was the over-gaya'ed guy there but I kind of like it. I like dressing smart even if it is not that big a deal of an event.

Was calculating prices for the specs of my computer upgrade... did not think it would be that pricey T_T
Sigh... my mother was not too pleased about it. Well if I could prevent it I would, but my education and future career depends on it so... I hope I am able to get what I need without much resistance from me momma.

Blog for Saturday 12th June 2004
well yeah I got home pretty late yesterday so I did not have the focus to write a blog.

Woke up early in da morning and followed Enoch and Alice all the way to Bangi for Alice's sister's wedding. The reason being all the way at Bangi is because the groom lives there.

The schedule was somewhat unstable and kept changing the whole time. I was told that we would travel straight to the Equatorial Hotel (resort) Bangi. Then suddenly ended up going to the groom's house where I walked around the housing area in the hot sun. I did that rather than be in the house of somebody I don't know and also they were burning the incense thingy that really got up my nose.

After that, Enoch demanded that we go eat some Kajang Satay which we did. Nothing really fantastic except that the beef and mutton were really tender.

Finally went to the Equatorial Hotel, wasn't really as I imagined. It was indeed a resort looking place. The rooms were quite spacious which was impressive.


Later in the night after waiting, Wedding Dinner commenced, but before that Enoch was singing _that_ song and I played the guitar while the bride and groom walked into the ball room.

the menu had quite a decent selection I can say.
- four season opener (usual)
- sharks fin soup (usual)
- boneless fried chicken wit mango sauce
- fried garoupa in soy sauce (fried till hancur)
- vegetable \
- prawns ----> both of these I went walking around
cos I don't eat those stuff

- fried rice with anchovies
- lin chi something something; some sweet soup wit stuff in it which I didn't eat. Just drank the soup.

I was the only guest that was overdressed there wearing a blazer. The only other two people that wore a coat was the groom and the bride's father <_<

Went back with Enoch near midnight, but Alice planned to stay in a hotel room with Ivy (her younger sister) and her cousin. Which was quite to Enoch's liking as he and I had plans which Alice is not suppose to know about so I will say no more.
Reached home at 12am something and well that ended my day's adventure.

2 birds wit 1 rock
Well I decided to go book my air ticket at Jean Monteiro today since Shawn did that without telling me <_< . Yesterday he was saying how good looking the staff at Jean Monteiro's was. Her name was Simone. Well the first time I met her, I didn't really ogle at her, because I was there on business and when I was there, it was her first time at work there.

So today I went there and sort things out wit Simone instead of Jean Monteiro; the owner of the company.

Shawn is somehow attracted to her. Well anybody who are friends with me should know that I am quite mean when it comes to discussing about people or things. I tend to hantam them kau kau and then whoever is conversing wit me end up both laughing alot about it but this time, Shawn started it first. Saying something about preferring to deal wit Simone then Jean Monteiro with the sentence, "I don't want raisin... I want ribena berry"

On the way home, Yus; the staff from my college called and told me that my invitation letter to the graduation ceremony next week 15th was ready for pick up so I went there before going home.

While waiting for Yus to pass me my envelope, this meddling person there called Molly, suddenly came and gave me lecture on what to wear at the graduation ceremony. I gave her a look indicating that I didn't need to hear her crap and she got the signal. I still wonder what is her purpose in the college.

Shaving Suxx
I just shaved and frickin cut myself on my chin... wit a gilette mach 3. Yeah I cut myself wit a triple blade shaver <_< and it hurts like frickin hell. Maybe it's because I added listerine to the bleeding. Listerine is one of the best antiseptics around the household for wounds. It ain't just a mouth wash!!!

I hate shaving. Girls who like clean shaven men better appreciate it when their guys shave their faces for them.

oh my frickin' head...
8th June 2004 - Tuesday

woke up at sometime noon today because of my dog barking at God knows what outside. I told him to shuddup but guess he doesn't understand english that well.

Woke up and was online reading articles, the same usual ordinary day when I'm have no where to go. Sometime in the afternoon Enoch suddenly called out my name at the back of my house. I was like... what the crap, looked out my window and saw him there. Apparently he did not pay his phone bills so he couldn't make calls. He came to my house to make some phone calls and also practiced singing Joshua Kadison's "Beautiful In My Eyes" for his sister in law's wedding dinner. Guess who has to play guitar for him T-T . Its at Equatorial Bangi. (BANGI!!!)

Finally found Saber Marionette J complete anime after how many years of searching. But then I realized it was in .ogm format. Who the heck so free to create such a video format. I had to reorganized my cluttered divx codecs to prepare for that anime and use different media players to play them and their interface suxx. The only benefit about .ogm files are that you can switch between languages for audio if available, most of the animes by default are english which really bothers me. Animes should be watched in its original language with subtitles! Btw, I haven't even figured out how to activate subtitles <_<.

Well today my one side of my house gate collapsed. Again. And I saw my other dog; the one that stays outside missing. So I guessed she must've sneak out through the hole of the gate which was not standing straight. When I went out, I saw some neighbour chasing her out of their house. And I shouted at her to get back in my house which she did.

In the evening I suddenly had a headache and tried sleeping. It didn't work. So I went to badminton with a headache and the recovering injured left leg. Lost all games played.

Zenden, called (after a long long while) and talked to me about his n-gage. I wouldn't think a person like him would buy an n-gage, cos he doesn't support nokia products. He was trying to find out what the phone can do and all that and talked about meeting up with me (for the Xth) time but never ever materialized.

Sigh when I'm over at Australia, there won't be mamak food for me for one and a half years. I love nasi lemak. Guess won't be having that for a while <_<.

Animes Are Inspiring
7th JUNE 2004 - MONDAY

somewhere the night before, I was talking to Afzal about me downloading Chobits and he recommended using bit torrent as it would be more reliable, I thought what the heck just give it shot. Afzal said usually it downloads at 30kbps more or less while kazaa is really pathetic nowadays. When I was downloading the Chobits; the whole 24 episodes the speed was around 122kbps and Afzal couldn't believe it, so I sent him a screenshot. Later in the early mornings I checked before playing warcraft with Shawn, the speed was up to 222kbps (even wow for me) and best part was there was no lag while playing with Shawn.

9am woke up and saw that my download was complete.
And to think that it took me the weekend to download 3 episodes of Chobits, while this bit torrent did the whole series within less than 12 hours.

Today I was suppose to wake up at 9am to go collect my passport. I woke up before then but went back to sleep again. It's a bad habit, I always seem to be able to wake up before the alarm clock goes off but then I refuse to get up any sooner. Today I didn't set my alarm to wake me up cos my dad said he would do the waking. I didn't feel like getting up at all when suddenly the muscles in my lower left leg tighten and felt like it was being twisted inside. It hurt like hell... Like my leg could've might as well just break off since I was in agonizing pain. This however is not the first time I've experienced this... only last year onwards once in a while it will happen to either my left or right leg when I'm sleeping on the bed.
This problem cannot be relieved that easily, if I move, the muscles will tighten even more and hurt even more, the same goes if I relax the mucles, the only way was to hold the position till the pain very very very slowly subsides.
The weird thing of this problem is that it happens when I need to get up, as far as I can recall. Or just keeps me from getting the sleep I need.

So I got up and went to wake my dad. Yes he was sleeping. Well can't blame him the weather was so cool and comfortable for sleeping in after how many days of blazing hot and humid weather. I'm interested to experience the four seasons of Melbourne. Yeah so we got out, had breakfast and went to collect my passport which took only like fifteen minutes. Badawi, or should I say Pak Lah rox.

Got home had nothing to do, so I decided to do Chobits marathon, watched the entire series from 11am till 4pm. After watching the hardships that the main character (what's his face) went through, I was inspired, motivated and wililng to face whatever life difficulties that Uni-Life abroad has in store for me minus the cute chobit chick. (damn)

Well had dinner at my uncle's place (again) not to my preference as usual. Came back and Afzal dropped by and passed me some cds to burn the Chobits series in. I feel kinda lazy as I have yet to burn my own copy of Chobits and other series on my 80+40gb hdd. I'm trying to back up all my goodies in preparation for my new computer.

Chobits is one of the best anime I've ever seen, well it is almost a big impression as Love Hina; my first anime recommended by Shawn. In short and rather rough way of explaining why I like this show is because I find a dumb cute girls trying to learn things in life quite appealing. Especially when they get the teachings wrong. If there are any animes with beautiful/cute girls, you can be sure sooner or later I will get around to finding out about them and watching them. (buahahaha) A girl's innocence turns me on.

Well the main character Hideki Motosuwa is a ronin student, a student that failed to get into a university cos of bad grades. So he decides to try again by taking the exam the following year. He moves to the city and rents an apartment. Life was tough for him as he found that chobit chick and now became even poorer as he had to support the chobit chick as well. But fortunately he found a job and worked and seemed like he was able to provide for himself and her. Well... he also did receive alot of help from the people around him.

I wish my experience in Australia could be similar to that. But I don't think the chobit thing will happen.

Sunday... one of the good ones I've had
Well I managed to wake up to the sound of my alarm clock today to go for dim sum breakfast with Enoch and Alice at nine something in the morning at a new shop in Uptown.

It was fairly good, but then I don't eat dim sum much so I wouldn't know what would be good and what would be terrible, I usually order the common stuff that they can't possibly screw up like the fried turnip cake, and char siew pau, this time they didnt have the fried prawn in batter thingy. I'm still quite confuse what is lobakow and chai tau kueh. pple say they are the same thing but I realize that calling it different will bring u a different form of preparation for it. My case however i prefer the square ones and not the one that is fried like char kuay teow.
During that meal I discovered Alice has one thing in common with me which is that we both are lazy to go out (walk/drive) to find food eventhough its nearby and would rather find something in the house to eat. Well for me if I have nothing to eat I don't mind, I can wait till the next meal time comes.

Church time... I arrived early and everybody (except me) were having prayer meeting so I was sitting down thinking then I decided to be different today, I went behind the musical instrument cabinet and tucked in my shirt into my pants which I seldom do... Well that attracted alot of peoples' attention (nyahahaha). Well I succeeded in that. The potong steam part was Eunice asked me why my pants were so high up -_-". I wanted to say that my legs were long and my torso was short, but it somehow didn't get to my mouth, I just said 'no lar normal wor.' Some people said I looked funny cos I never usually tuck in my shirt.

After church service finished my mom abandoned me and left me wit my uncle to send me home cos she wanted to go to office and do work. My uncle didn't take me home instead took me back to his house and said 'later I'll send you back'. So I spent the whole day there doing stupid things on the computer with my cousin till dinner time.

After dinner now I'm finally back in my seat in my room... (ahhh... bliss)
Watched 2 more episodes of chobits... Chii is sooooo cute >_<

Each day passes I feel more and more discouraged and gelabah cos my mom hasn't acquired the financial means to pay for my first semester at Swinburne University and I need to get the cash and my form in by next week or ASAP in order for them to process it and send me the letter to get my VISA and a medical checkup. Everyday wasted is a day closer to succession in screwing this big time for me. I've got this one shot and I don't wish to blow it. Oh dear God please help me. T-T