michael recently shifted into his new place and has no internet connection yet..so he came to my place to use my com to check his emails while i had to go out...
when i came back...i was pleasantly surprised by my new wallpaper that michael designed ....
(Click on picture to enlarge)
It's gonna be there for a lllLLOnnnNNNGggGGG time....^_^
Friday, February 13, 2009
~ 5:39 PM ~
TGIF!!!!
Thank God It's FRIDAY!!! ok..finally reached the end of the week and i'm just so glad to have made it through....been working quite long hours this week..i actually worked till 7pm last night without me knowing cause the sky was still so bright even at 7! lol!
anywayz, i'm kinda satisfied with my progress this week..currently working on my phd confirmation report which i need to submit and present in about 3 weeks time before i can actually progress from a 'probationary' status to a 'full' status. just a formality..
been really stressful in writing the report..i submitted my first draft last week and i had to redo about 80% of it cause my supervisors wanted it to have more words and more flow and more in depth analysis...i still have one more section to write and that's the toughest part to write..shall leave that to next week... been also reading journal articles....i've read about 6 articles in the past week...a major feat never ever accomplished in my academic career!
anywayz, digressing....i'm sure u all know of the bushfires in victoria, australia..it's really bad and from the news report...it's just beyond our imagination....they described it as a firestorm....fires were reported to travel at 130km/h...how do you outrun that? i think the scariest report was when i read about people trying to escape in their cars, but yet did not make it and were incinerated in their own cars....
and to end this week over here...melbourne has been hit by a haze...gosh...and i'm surprised that the news didnt report anything about the haze... haze's really getting on my nerves actually...cant stand the smell and a small rash has developed on the lower part of my right cheek....arrghhhh!!!!
all in all...not too sure how to describe my week..but anywayz, i will be glad and rejoice in it =)
Sunday, February 08, 2009
~ 5:30 PM ~
Cool and Hot
Forgive my lack of originality for titling this post describing my past week...^_^
So, it has been slightly more than a week since i came back from singapore and perhaps i'm still adjusting to the change in lifestyle..haha! Very significantly, there's no more mummy's cooking T-T
and yea, i confessed that i did cry twice (without my parents knowing..^_^) before the day i left..hahaha! shhhhh!!!!
still trying to get into the groove of working again...also a little discouraged cause one of my frens told me that he was quitting phd on the day i arrived back in Melb! gosh...didnt see that coming....but other than that, i think i'm doing quite ok for my work...currently working on my phd confirmation which i'm due to present on the 5th March. I have to write a report which has to include what was, what is and what will be...obviously...it is the "what will be" which is difficult to write cause it has yet to happen....AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! on top of that, i need to read lots of journal articles to be able to write a review of the relevant literature related to my phd....read 3 articles on thurs and fri..an amazing achievement..ahahahahaha!
anywayz, summer last week has been cool and hot....shall not talk about the cool...it's just cool..it was the hot that was testing... it hit 46 degrees yesterday, well, at least that was what i heard...^_^ so here's what i did yesterday (i) Had a meeting in AIR CONDITIONED rooms from 9am to 3pm (ii) Went to Chew's AIR CONDITIONED house for chilling out (iii) Went to Glen for movie with michael, rachel, shaun and derek at 4pm till about 610pm. Cinema was crowded with people like us trying to avoid the peak of the heat in the air conditioned theatres =)
And when i came out of the movie at 610...it was back to cool!!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!! the temperature had dropped to the mid 20s..it was such a cool relief....but i'm blessed to have been out of the hot scorching weather for most of the times yesterday. I think i was only exposed to the heat for about an hour in total..and during those times, it was really unbearable. the wind was hot, skin was hurting and breathing can sometimes be difficult too....
so what did the news say? well..it was the worst day in Victoria history...and 65 people have been confirmed dead from yesterday's bush fire...even the state premier, john brumby broke down during a press conference....yea..things are really grim...
