Oh What A Day
Mood:  chillin'
After how many months of waiting for his promise to happen, my friend finally managed to meet up with me. He had been saying he wanted to meet up with me even before we left for Australia. Today was the day.

We met at Flinders Street station and walked to Swanston Street to catch a tram to Fitzroy, however, my friend took me on the wrong tram -_- .
On the way back to the stop for the right tram, a guy came on the tram with his dog, and got told to get off the tram with his dog as there are no pets allowed on the tram, and the guy made a big fuss before leaving with his dog.

He wanted to take me shopping at factory outlets. I thought it was a good idea because they sell "outdated" stuff cheaper. To me oudated or latest trend doesn't mean jack. As long as it looks good on me I'm fine. I was quite pleased with my purchase. I bought a pair of nike shoes as I needed an extra pair cos the one that I brought back home looked like it was gonna break into halves or something due to maximum usage. I also bought 2 pairs of pants which I need as I did not bring enough clothes here and also a t-shirt with the word 'player' on it. I thought it was funny. After that we went into a quicksilver shop and saw a pair of shoes that were going for 15 dollars. It was simply too good to miss so I grabbed a pair, my friend wanted one too but they did not have it in his size, everything else was too big for him. See? One thing good about me going to western countries, they have my size.

Shopping with my friend was quite... interesting I should say, he shopped like a girl, going from store to store to check on all the stuff, trying them out but not really buying most of the things he tried. However I respect his calculativeness for it also helps save money and make the wisest choice in buying the items.

On the way back to the city there was this group of guys with one of them looking like he was on drugs or something, came on the tram, turned to face the exit and just vomitted out like that saying that he had too much to drink. Later on his friend gave him a plastic bag to vomit in and he threw out the used plastic bag out the door as well -_-. You don't see that happening in Malaysia now do you?

We arrived back in the city. My friend wanted to grab those 1 dollar pizzas for lunch. They didn't look worth to me as the pizza dough was thick and had very little toppings on it, but I guess you get what you pay for. I went to Hungry Jacks after he got his pizza. After eating, we sat there for a while talking about stuff when suddenly this guy grabbed my ribs while walking past by and he was like laughing saying that I was ticklish. Well it was more like 'WTF! why did you grabbed me' kind of reaction. Later on he came back the other way and did the same thing and was laughing. I thought he was retarded or something, I was quite pissed off and wanted to beat the shit out of him with a chair then and there but then I'd thought better not to trouble myself and waste time and just let it go.

When I left I saw him got arrested by police outside the store. Police are real efficient here and thats good. I bought back for Shawn a burger set from Hungry Jacks and put it in one of my shopping bags as I had too many things to carry.

Later on at night when I was going through my stuff I realized that the coke from that spilled onto all of my clothes, pants and shirts. So I quickly put them into the washing machine and then into the dryer. Much to my disappointment, my Player shirt shrank. I was really upset over this because I haven't even wore it and it already got screwed up. I hate dryers. From now on I'm just gonna put trousers into the dryers. I still could wear the t-shirt though it became like those undershirt kind of thing, body hugging and stuff, I wouldn't wear it just like that as it looks gay. Well maybe when I sleep or something.

Oh by the way, my friend who went with me shopping, did not want me to write his name in my blog. Probably becaue he is too embarassed with his shopping behaviour. Oh well... till next time.


This is the last days of my 1 week holiday and I still have not been able to think of any ideas for my assignments. As my friend said, holidays were meant for people to have breaks but my uni gave us holidays to do more work -___- what a rip.

Consultation Week
Now Playing: Chingy - Right Thurr
This week is suppose to be consultation week, where we have no classes but can go to campus to ask lecturers for help if we face any problems with the courses so far.

Meh... what can they help that is not already in the notes they cover? I remember asking one of the lecturers about a problem in the coding and he said it works on his computer so its not a problem. It didn't even work on Shawn's computer. What kinda crap did he give me? So called help.

Just like losing more and more sleep day by day playing oRO hahaha... maybe I will work on my stuff next week. Quite heavy stuff to do, gotta do 3D commercial for my Logo design which I have no idea how to do at the moment cos I have no story board, also I have to at least do some flash animation for my swatch commercial *sigh* and also finish up on documentation for another subject. Uni suxx... studying suxx, working maybe not that sucky but it still suxx.

madness
Now Playing: Spice Girls - Holler
what a tiring day...

i slept at 5am and woke up at 7am to go for my class in Prahran was so difficult to get up, for one thing was because I was dead tired and the other was because it was sooooo cold... even my milo that was just made became lukewarm within a few minutes. I couldn't even hold the cup properly, was shivering the entire time.

The reason why i slept for only less than two hours was because I was busy with my internet assignment where I am suppose to create a website embedding Javascript elements which is a freaking pain in the ass especially if I don't know what to use it for.

Hmm apparently the lecture in my design class at Prahran does not like people being cocky, I think, cos as she was going around the room to make sure students would be able to follow the examples I just said 'this is so boring' and she told me to make an animation within 10 minutes. Hahahaha. I didn't even know what kind of animation she wanted.

Got home and just finished up my internet assignment although I could not embed much of the javascript in there cos it just sucks and I don't see any use for it. When I uploaded it to their server I discovered one of my buttons screws up and I couldn't find out how to fix that, so I just got fed up and left it the way it was and uploaded it.
As long as I don't fail this stupid subject I am fine... I mean c'mon, I've already taken this class back home.

During the evening I intended to sleep for a while, only to wake up later realizing I had slept for few hours!!! Damn this 'too cold' weather. When I woke up I thought it was morning then I realized it was night... I was like... Double Yoo Tee Eff and got a hangover after that.

Just a day, just another boring day~
Now Playing: Money Mark - Use Your Head

I don't know today feels sorta relaxed for me eventhough I still alot of work to do. Probably because my tutorial class today; User Experience Design had passed and I can move on to other work to do.

I ran into alot of problems with alignments while coding HTML which was really frustrating. I had to actually make the entire page from scratch twice before it finally worked. Thanks to my friends who helped me.

While creating my website I listened to fusion jazz which actually is quite suitable to working with, it's catchy and stuff but it's not so distracting that it destroy your concerntration on current work at hand.

Hmm after I am done with this website assignment I think I will use it's template to renovate my own personal website. I think it's kind of a good template.

I'm Cordless...
Now Playing: Justin Timberlake - Senorita
Woohoo finally I got my cordless keyboard and mouse from my cousin. Well today she went to collect her new car so she was 'free' to pass me my stuff cos the novelty of her new car is still lingering I guess.

I went with her and her boyfriend who happens to be a real nice guy to K-Mart at Burwood which was far away. Why at Burwood? cos that one opens 24 hours a day so... shibby. I went there to get a quilt cover cos according to me cousin, the way how she describe getting the quilt dirty was very... bad. So did her mom. So I got one.

Today at K-mart I learnt something new which I never realized that I had capability to do. Oh how I wish it was reading peoples' minds but its not that. I learnt that my ATM card can be used to buy stuff as well. Most shops that have this swipe card machine thing that looks like its for credit cards only? Well they accept bank cards as well. So it was great! I no longer have to withdraw cash from the ATM machines and fear of being jumped after that.

Chloe's cousin ask what was our version of this system called back in Malaysia. I answered 'Don't Have'.

We stopped by Hungry Jacks for me to buy back food for myself and Shawn. When I got home, I found out that I had been ripped off. The guy forgot to include Shawn's burger >=F and I paid good money for that. Buggers.

More exciting adventures!
Now Playing: Sheryl Crow - All I Wanna Do
What a day...

I woke up this morning at 11am and cooked pancakes for breakfast. You might be thinking 'Wow can this guy actually make pancakes?' Well the answer is... No. I cannot make pancakes. I said I cooked pancakes as in merely pouring the substance into the pan and letting it turn brown and flipping it over and pile them up and eat.

Went for 3D lecture just in time before the guy actually started lecturing cos at the beginning of every lecture he would show us a video of 3D animation. I kinda like his lectures, he explains things in a way that it is easy to understand and actually demonstrates in a way that is also seem interesting enough for me to wanna give a go at it. More to say than what I had in my college <_<.

After that I headed off to the city to get my Swatch watch design, printed on A3 paper full colored. It was quite crap actually but what the heck it was my first time there with nobody to actually instruct me what to do so I guess i was pretty kick ass for a first time job.
It went something like this, I went to the counter to purchase a swipe card. It is the type of card where they put credits in it, and all you gotta do if you wanted to use their computers or printers were to just swipe the card on the machine by these nodes. So I paid enough for 30 minutes session with one of the computers. I went and found an Apple computer and set there figuring out how to swipe the thing which took me a couple of minutes. After that I wanted to load my file onto the computer but that crap computer did not seem to have anymore USB ports for me to plug my usb drive in. So I left and found a normal Windows PC. Then I realized that you actually have to pay 16.50 an hour to use the Apple computer. When I checked on the Windows PC for my credit it showed I had 15 minutes left. So I thought okay 15 minutes would be more than enough for me to get my stuff done. Now this Windows computer couldn't read my USB drive which was like... crap. So with quick thinking I got online and ask Shawn back home to send me a copy of my file I left on my desktop and I managed to get it over. Now I had to wait at the counter again (wait cos there was nobody there) to reload 5 dollars for a print out. It was 4.50 for an A3 full colored print out. When it finished printing, my name came out as Noel Chang Jin Xi.. without the AN and a part of it was sorta like smudged but I was already like what the heck man, I ain't gonna pay extra 4.50 to get it right cos I'm not that loaded.

Fortunately me lecturer said it was okay for the name to be like that just as long as I had my student ID there which I did.

On the way home by train, the train just went passed my stop. So I decided to be patient about it and get off the next stop and take another one back the other way.

There were alot of high school kids at this stop. I think their uniforms are smart and nice. I wonder how come Malaysia never had the idea to do this. Hmmm...

The train came, I boarded it and you know what? It was slowing down at my stop so I got ready to get off but then it started picking up speed again and stopped at the station after that which was my university's stop. Having enough of this I just got off and walked home from the university.

When I got home I wanted to test my USB Drive, through enough, both Shawn and my computer could not detect it. But hey after all the shit I've been through do you think I would just give up that easily? I manually activated it and formatted it and got it back buahahaha. I am the roxorz.

I have screwed up my sleeping pattern again which is bad. Especially when you don't have sufficient aspirins.

Life just sucks for me
Mood:  accident prone
I accidentally deleted my entire history of blog.
Why? Because I thought that particular folder was only to store images. I was trying to delete the image I accidentally uploaded and ended up deleting my entire history of blog. Well this pretty just wraps my day.

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Update, I managed to get it back woohooo with my smart thinking. I made a new blog as a dummy and duplicate its content into this blog's folder and just let the system smooth over the holes and now we're back in business.

Double-Yoo Tee Eff is Spring?
Now Playing: Fastball - Out Of My Head
1st Of September is suppose to be officially Spring for Melbourne. Oh yeah? Why I don't see any sign of it coming at all? Its so freaking cold nowadays. I think I did mention that is quite difficult to get out of bed. Now I understand how bears can hibernate throughout winter. It is not that difficult to do.

I had food poisoning 2 days ago, and I don't really know what gave me that cos 2 days ago I made some fries that were left in the freezer for a long time so it could be that, or it could've been dinner.
Yeah I am proud to claim that I cooked Kurma Chicken. Well it was nothing really, all I did was cut the chicken and stir fry em, and after that pour the bottled sauce into it and keep stirring until it was done(hahaha). Although it was alright, it didn't really taste like the kurma I use to have back home at the mamaks. See back home, the kurma is like yellowish-greenish kinda sauce while this one I bought at the supermarket was orange and looked a lot like chutney.

I woke up at around 1 something in the afternoon cos I was still recovering from my food poisoning.
Today I was suppose to make myself try to at least get some work started on my Internet 2's assignment about making a webpage loaded with all the javascript in it with minimum of 7 pages. Instead of getting to work I spent 2 hours plus playing Super Mario World on my computer and got a headache after that.

Before I knew it, it was time for dinner, I went out to the nearby pizza place and ordered a combo meal consisting of 2 family sized pizzas, 1 garlic bread and 1.25 litres of coke. All for just AUD$24.50. Shawn and I managed to finish the garlic bread and half of each pizza. One was American, the other was Meat, well both had meat except one had more than the other but I couldn't tell the difference. But hey you gotta admit 24.50 can maybe last for 2 or 3 meals. So I say its worth it plus they even offer free delivery and our place is like 5 minutes walk from there. Its called Ronaldo's Pizza, and the guys in there were pretty friendly.

Next week is gonna be full of datelines and I am still wondering how I am gonna pull all of this through.


Oh yeah here is a little something for you to look at.

Finally It Came... On Second Thought
Now Playing: Michael Penn - No Myth
You know the weather is so freaking cold today.
It is suppose to be officially spring now! 1st September!!! But this morning it was so cold that I found it so difficult to get out of bed.

Today I had two classes. One 8:30 in the morning and the other later on 2:30 in the afternoon. I went for the first one because it took attendances. While the other, a lecture class does not because I was waiting for the broadband guy to come and settle the internet connection. Turns out Shawn had been using a second phone line which we never knew existed which explained the reason why we couldn't connect to the broadband internet for the past few days. No touching that second line as it ain't ours.

After that guy had left, Shawn spent hours figuring out how to connect my pc to his pc so that I can use the internet. Why so complicated? Well because he wanted the modem in his room while it would have made perfect sense to put it in my room, as my room actually had a telephone outlet and its by the wall so it wouldn't be so messy with wires. However he wanted it in his room and now we have wires all over the hallway waiting to trip some unaware victim. So as I said, he spent hours till I finally decided to intervene and suggested to him that he takes my network cable and plug it straight into the modem as well. Which obviously worked. I mean c'mon the modem has 4 ports, why not he use one and I use one? Maybe he likes being in control. Bah.

Now the problem is the microfilter. You see Australia's phone wall socket is very weird. It is not like our (Malaysia's) phone socket where it is just one hole. Australia ones are like a different shaped hole with connectors to a receiving plug. Kinda complicated well yeah it is complicated so I shall continue no further about that.
So the current situation is this, we can't use the telephone till we get the appropriate plug because the adsl line will make it very noisy to use the phone. That is why the microfilter is needed and you know how it goes.

I was glad that broadband finally came but then now I think I'm being ripped off. For AUD$100 a month, we're suppose to get 512kbps flat rate a month. But my download is as fast as dial up. What is up with that!? If thisi continues being this way, I'm just gonna stick with dial up. Never again will I talk bad about streamyx. They are the bomb. I mean I only pay for a 384kbps line but I get download speeds so much faster than what I pay for. But hey I ain't complaining for that.

Next week and the following week are full of datelines for assignments from various classes and most of them I have not actually gotten around to even complete half of each. They are so tedious and I don't know how to make heads or tails of them sheeesh. Probably hopefully this weekend I will try to lock myself in my room and not come out till I have finished at least 75% of each of my work. Sigh.

University life is what I don't need.


OH yeah lo and behold, most of all my quicktime videos taken from my digicam are corrupted. The visuals will freeze at a certain time in the track but the sound still goes on like normal. ARGH... all my memories gone down just like that.

(That's...) WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR?
Now Playing: Limp Bizkit - My Way
You know what?
I am so sick of dealing with people's screwed up behaviour. God only knows how they were brought up.

I just came back from the supermarket. Well I would say with Shawn but technically it is wrong. We both went in the same time but did not left the same time. Why? I will tell you why.
We both went in to get groceries but then later realized that the bottle cap opener was quite hard to find. So I decided to take an extra round on the aisle to make sure I did not miss it. When I was going to pay for my groceries, I saw Shawn waiting outside. Went I finally paid everything he disappeared. So I called his mobile asking him where did he go. He said ' I jalan already '. Isn't that just nice?

See that is what I don't get about him. When people wait for him or do things for him it is alright. But he just can't do the same for people. I wonder if his whole family was brought up that way or not. Maybe he just doesn't "feel like it". Screw this la. I've had enough of this. When people do something to him similarly then he would keep quiet about it and keep angry over it. I know this because the last time when I asked him what was wrong with him, I got a free verbal assault for nothing. This time, if he is pissed, I'm just going to not give a damn about it. If he wants to start something with me, I say bring it on. I am sick of being nice and not retaliating when being picked on.
I had enough of people saying the word 'sorry' to me. Apologies don't mean a thing to me anymore. It has been overused until the meaning itself is not there in the word anymore to me.

I heard somewhere saying that; If apologies really worked, there would not be wars in the world.

Maybe to him it is nothing. Well if him and his friends and families behave this way on not waiting for people then what is the difference of being just merely an acquaintance?
Yah then it just tops it up when you see him being nice and courteous to a girl he likes. Oh well perhaps that is normal human nature. Whatever it is, I'm done tolerating that kinda shit.

I can't expect him to be like me. So I won't give a damn about him no more. As far as living under the same roof is concern, everything in the public area like bathroom, kitchen and dining room is neutral grounds. Anywhere else, he's on his own. Since he likes it like that.

He is such a lame ass square.
When with a group of friends, he rarely even smiles or looks interested in the conversation. He doesn't even reply nicely. If he meant to, it does not give people the impression that he is being nice.
And if he is reading this, which normally I assume he does not, hmm I wonder if he would get offended by what I say and experienced. Quoting from him "I am telling it like it is"

The world is full of different people. He is one of them. I am on of them. The challenge is not to get into a brawl with him.

I came here predicting what I am living now.
I predicted that I would share a place with him, but then I will only be sharing the place with him and nothing else. He lives his life, I live mine. I thought that my prediction was off, but then it is starting to fall into place.

I will be so glad that when my time in Australia is done.