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Well, I had my first exam on Wednesday and it was fine. Really.

I wrote 10 pages, not full; but most of my coursemates had written all 16 pages of their answer booklet.

What????????

How did they do that??

Oh ya. Early preparations. 

Got it. I didn't do that. I crammed everything at the last minute. I was practically happy that I could even reached 10 pages. Woohoo~

And then, I free for roughly a week!

My second and last exam is on next Friday.

I am taking this exam with me sis. Yup. We took the same course. So, I don't want to spite her by studying for this course BECAUSE, she had exams 3 days in a row this week. Till Saturday.

Really, I don't want to spite her. And also, I am lazy. 

Reasons reasons reasons. There's always reasons to ditch studying.

ok... so... how's life??? 

Not much happened, as usual. No interesting stories, just some old routine that I somehow enjoy repeating everyday. I barely talk to someone else intentionally. I mean, I don't go and find friends to talk. You get what I mean? You see, I don't think anything I talk about is interesting at all and can hold anyone's attention span for more than a minute. So, keeping quiet might be the best way to avoid the 'cold treatment'. 

That said, I still prefer listening to others' conversations. In Uni, the things different from high school, from my point of view, are that drinking and dancing (sort of) are normal. I mean, back in Kuching, the most I would go was eating or drinking tea with friends passed midnight. And then no more. Comparing my life then to my uni friends' lives, I sounded so... ha! I don't know. Different. Uni friends are crazy, sometimes. ... 

I'm still happy to meet them, though a bit crazy sometimes. Did I mention? All of my friends are not from around here. Well, I mean their ethnicity. I didn't make any Kiwi friends. How sad. 

I can't even maintain my relationships with my old friends I could I even make new friends? 

413 - recently

Lecture started early today, at 9am in the cold windy morning. And then, I’m free for the whole day. How awesome is that!  = =

What a waste of my time.

Well, it’s because some of my classes and labs have not officially started yet. That’s why I have sooooo many free slots. One lab starts at the next following week on Tuesday. So, on Tuesday, I would have 3 academic hours…..>_> That doesn’t change much isn’t it. Hmm… Wait till the next term. There’s another course that only runs on the 2^nd term. Hope that ‘enrich’ my first semester timetable…..

Some side facts…. 现在正在听着《七里香》这专。噢噢噢~ 果然好喜欢他那时期的曲调歌词啊~~>.< 那样的听着，会想起中学时期的片段呢。。。。初中的时候。嘛，我不知道时代对不对，我确实是哪个时候才意识到我在听谁的歌。因为··那时候mp3机开始流行，我爸不知道在那给我买个中国货的mp3 player. 然后啊，下载技术没现在那么好，所以乱找一把，然后就都是他的歌和英文歌了。日文歌的话，就动画的主题曲之类的。那时我不怎么看歌词，这听歌。现在看歌词边听，感受加倍~ 这专里，大致上都喜欢，除了几首不那么听之外···

OK, back to daily life.

So, I’m taking 6 courses this year. One of them is a whole year course. That’s a 30 points course. I have another 30 points course which only runs 1 semester. Ooooo… So, that course is a bit heavier compare to other 15 points courses. More workload.

I’m taking 4 bio courses and 2 psyc papers. …..

WHY IS IT SO DAMN COLD IN MARCH?!!! IT’S SUPPOSE TO BE AUTUMN! NOT WINTER!! Crazy weather. It shouldn’t be this cold in the beginning of March. STUPIAK WEATHER.

Hmmm…. Oh ya. Father and mother went back last week, on Saturday morning. To Kuching via Sydney to Singapore, then Singapore to KL and then finally Kuching. … MAS is not flying Singapore to Kuching at that time. Why’s that???????? I highly doubted that there’s no one flying that flight. Duh…..

With their departure, our life are back to normal. School and occasional stock takings. Since we are on that topic, we went stock taking last night. XD It’s a retail shop in a mall. What was the name….. “Bed Bath & Table” ?  Something like that. Is quite a small and compact shop. Quite nice. The shelves are sooo high. I can’t reach them of course. I could reach till the fourth level of the shelf. Ahaha……..

Shelves of bedsheets and towels… XD

Anyway, we finished job at around 9pm. Started at 6pm. Wow. That was fast. We bought BK for dinner on our way back. Cost me $10 for 2 burgers, a medium drink, a sundae, 2 small fries and 1 small onion rings. That’s quite cheap.You can’t really get that much thing for $10 from McD. Hehehe…… Recalling it, I’m hungry for fries again… = = No good. That’s too soon for fries.

Going to do some cooking tonight. It’s cold, really hope the cooking would make us warmer. I needed to finish the vegetables in the fridge anyway. Leftovers from mum. >_> She bought quite a lot and couldn’t finish them. On the last day, she even bought a mudcake!!! And she left without touching it. T^T

oh ya.... was going to shop this to you guys but then I kept forgetting.

This is a... welcoming pack I suppose, from the UCSA (University of Canterbury Student Association). I really wanted to get one because of the student planner and the whole year calendar. It's a whole year calendar. XD

…………….somanythingstofinishihopeyouguyswouldnotbuyanythingherethatyoucannotfinishthenexttimeyouarehere.

Nice day to you!

3D

hmmm....

I have another research report due this coming Tuesday. >.<

And I have no idea why I'm so excited about it...

It's not easy at all... writing this research report....

It's due Tuesday morning at 9, during laboratory time.

Kind of lucky that it's not on Monday.

If so..., I'm not gonna enjoy my weekend. Trust me. I know I wouldn't be spending the whole day writing about it, just that I would spend the whole day dreading about it. = =

That is a very unhealthy process.

So.. after this, Mid-year exams are jusssssssssst around the corner.

The timetable of the exams has been uploaded onto the school web last week...

And I discovered that I have 2 courses on the same day, and another one the day before them. Luckily another course is the on the next week. ...phew...

After Mid-year exam, HOLIDAYYYYYYYYYYYY.

YEAHHHH.

The duration is not as long as mid-term though.. because there's no Ester Sunday or such... = =



awwww...............................


What courses to take for next term?? I am fixed on 3 courses and have another empty slot...hm........thinking of putting a 3rd year course into it...but...wouldn't I make myself stress out because it's a 3rd year course????



don't know laaaaaaaaaaa......



by the way, I went to the cinema this Tuesday ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >.< watched STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS.

Despicable Me is coming~~~~~~~~ 

We bought the ticket on Monday evening after school just in case there were none on the next day.

Yet, it turned out that there's no rush in buying the ticket. lol.

We watched 3D~~~ my first 3D in NZ. XDDD

3D tickets are on offer now. That's why I'm so eager to watch 3D. I've been waiting to watch this ever since I saw the movie poster... somewhere.. the beginning of the year?? Maybe.  Can't wait to watch it since then~~~~~~~~~~~~~ XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

The 3D glassess!!! We get to bring them home!!! We paid about 1 dollar or so and we get to keep them!!! I didn't know that you could keep them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why don't they do that in Malaysia????????? Next time people wouldn't need to pay extra for the glasses just to watch a 3D movie in cinema...

The glasses are just plain normal ones. I have no idea how am I going to put it on for 2++ hours while wearing my own glasses.

During the whole movie, I held on it with my elbows sitting on my lap or the armrest. lol. I curled my legs up just to make myself comfortable. After all there's no one beside me, except my sister.

The whole cinema was sooo empty~!!! The total viewers were around 14-16 people. hahaha!!!!

We sat right in the middle of the whole room~~~ Like kings, lol.

The others sat way below us, I mean, way far down below from us. It's like we had the whole upper part of the big room to us alone.

:DDDDDDD  SO DAMN HAPPY ABOUT THAT FOR NO REASON. 

Anyway, the room could hold about... 500++ I think. lol. BIG BIG ROOM. even the chairs are so comfortable...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ok, the movie. hmmmmmm. For the 3D effect, I like the wrap travel the best. >.< Sooo blue and glittering.


I don't want to comment anything about the movie. :D I watched it not because it is Star Trek, it's because of  the antagonist of the movie. That's all.

The one I really want to watch it Iron Man 3. ~~~~ I want to watch it in 3D!!!!! but I don't think my sis would allow that. lol..

I shouldn't have

... I failed my own promised. = =

I really should have updated the blog yesterday since there's quite a few things going on in my mind and I should have better written them down. Now, after one night sleep, my mind is kinda blank. O.O 

Let me recall....

From the start of the day...

9am, BIOL271 tutorial. Tutorial, that word bring's chill down my spine. = = I don't like tutorials. Why? Because, it means a small number of people doing group discussion of a topic in a small confine room or something. I'm really weak at this. I rarely talk to strangers and discussing topics with them is a VERY HUGE STEP. Besides, maybe this is my own negative thinking, I felt... inferior. hm... I'm a foreigner. A foreigner from Asian countries. I know I shouldn't have felt that way and there's no reason for me to feel so... but that's not the case. Although I'm on the same level as them (academicly...?), I can't speak out at all. ....hm... Why so? It's like I'm really scare. Really scare. I'm the type to get really nervous in front of people. I remembered clearly during Senior 3, I got so nervous that I nearly stopped talking completely in front of the class during my BM oral exercise. = = I was twisting my hands behind my back. .... Bad memories.....

Also, I find it difficult to tell somebody some interesting episodes happened in my day. Even if I'm telling it to my sister. It's frustrating that I can't get my message or excitement across. So I was thinking, maybe I should start by telling my sister stories?  I mean, I read something first, and then tell her in my own words... That might help in my explanation to others, right???? 

Back to my tutorial. I'm the only Asian in my group. And the whole group felt like.. . "Even if I said I don't really get the essay but I could still answer the questions." ... How should I follow up to that. When I said I don't understand that means I really don't understand. ...And once again, this is my own thoughts, I'm relatively very small.... ...erm... Skip this topic. 

Since 2 years ago, how I wish I could be grouped together with other Asians. At least, maybe, I would dare to talk out cause I feel that we are on the same level...maybe. ...aih... 

Actually, this group discussion thingy for this course is new. The lecturers/course coordinators introduced this learning system this year and "used" us as the white mouse for this. You see, they wanted to see if the students learn more from the Traditional Teaching method or the group discussion method. And of course, I voted for the first method in my head. To me, learning and thinking is a personal thing. It's something that going in my head and it felt kinda...private. Maybe I don't mind sharing....and maybe I do mind...

I don't know... When discussed, it felt like ...people could roughly examined where your thinking or learning or revision is... And I really don't like that. Maybe I'm a bit too self conscious and really nervous and stressed out about what people think of me. I'm afraid of people thinking negatively of me... I rather they have no thoughts about me to negative thoughts... That's selfish, I know....

Skipped the details about the tutorial...

I had Personality lecture next. ^^ Love this lecture. It's much more interesting than Cognitive's lectures. =v= I don't know...For me, I could understand Personality lectures more than Cognitive's. Cognitive is a bit difficult. lol... I'm not hardworking enough to understand it. :p
Anyway, the lecturer came late today. Around 20 minutes late?? Students left during the first 15 minutes. lol. The others sat back and wait. I wait too~

Next is laboratory. I like this lab too ^^ This course's lab is fun actually. Maybe because it's not a core course, it's much more relax and that bit easier. =w= That's why I like it. Not much pressure at all. Maybe during the test though. XD

We looked at our pulses and heartbeats. I tried my pulse first and discovered that we needed to adjust the ranges till small levels to see changes on the chart.  = = My lecturer commented that I have no pulse. lol. I did expected that...He said I'm the type that have cold hands and legs and pulses that are hard to detect. ...hm.. .. my hands are cold... legs are cold too sometimes... Oh well, we used my lab partner's pulses in the end.

We wrapped the transducer on her middle finger and a transducer belt around her waist. Next, we do some breathing exercise. Inhale, hold ; Inhale, expel; Expel, hold....we recorded her pulses and heart rates for each of the conditions and answers some questions.

The next exercise, me and my partner switched. This time, instead of using belts to wrap around finger and waist, we used big clippers to measure pulses and heart beats...I think. er... No no no. We do ECG. Electrocardiogram. It's used to see the heart exercises and detect and heart problems.

So, it started by measuring my normal pulses and heart beats. Then I get on the cycling thing and cycled for a few minutes with high frictions. My lecturer screwed it quite tight (means higher friction and need to put on more force to cycle) and it didn't help much with only one complete pedal. Another pedal was long spoiled so I could only pedal with that tiny metal. Painful la. By the time I stopped and came down from the thing, wow... dizzy la. Did I stop breathing while cycling ? = = We quickly measured my pulses and heart beats. Wow... Huge peaks. lol. It's interesting to see some differences in the readings. ~~~ Actually it's kind of interesting looking at the instruments that telling the condition of your heart beats. Really.

So... interesting lab. ^^ Fun.

After that, I went to the library to look for my sis. By then, it was already 5:20pm... Quite late. hm...

We went straight home then cause we had a dinner date with Auntie. ^^

I drove us to an Indian Restaurant - Kinara located just opposite the Hornby Hub.

We ordered 2 curries and that came with rice. It's $15 for each curry. Don't get tricked by the photos, actually they were just 2 small pots. But you can eat up to a few bowls or rice with just 1 small pot, since the flavour is so rich....

So, that's dinner....

After that, Auntie rented a dvd from a video store nearby and we spent the rest of our evening watching that particular movie. hm....

oh ya, before I forgot, let me introduce one of  my 'housemate'.

He is totally different from my old 'housemate', Mimi the Cat. >.< This guy is soo....fluffy. It's Momo the Dog.



I think I will just end the post.... it's getting quite stuffy....and long.... with all those....words...


ciao~