Reluctance

One more day to melb and I m actually very reluctant to go back... Frankly speaking, I feel kinda emo now, feel like crying...
I m so gonna miss my mum & dad=( I have had such a great time with them and I just can't believe it's all coming to an end soon... Gosh! One month!!!!
I guess I shall not say more.... Can the time please really slow down so that I can absorb all these in...

My brother is going back to kl layer today, and I m leaving tomorrow... I guess my mum will be really sad ... One thing my mum said yesterday which really hit me was that our family could finally have a cny dinner together after so many years. She added that for once, she need not be envious of other families... She said it jokingly but I know that deep down, she is really glad to have both sons by her side =)

I will miss u

Frags

AFter almost one month..i decided to play counter-strike on my computer again, as preparation for the upcoming LAN parties when i go back melb..^_^

played the iceworld map, i played against the bots..2 vs 1...i set the level of difficulty as hard..and i was amazed..the bots are so noob...i fragged them 32 times and i only got fragged twice....was wondering whether the bots level of difficulty was set correctly...i think it was..i first put it as normal..then found it too easy..then changed it to hard..then was still quite easy for me to frag them...oh wells....i think i'm still bad at the game

pang wu said tt ian has improved...or rather..ian has gotten back his form..AHAHAHAHAHAA! either way..not good news for me..AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA!! melburnians, come back quickly...next LAN party on the way..hahahahahaha!

digressing...

so we got a new US president...sounds optimistic..i stayed up late just to hear his inauguration speech and i must say though it wasnt the kind of 'kennedy' speech i was expecting, still, i must say that i came away impressed with his inclusive speech.. =)

hoping that we have a new hope in the world =)

Fawny fawn fawn

This is what happens to fawny fawn fawn (arise,shine) when she doesnt read the bible well enough...^_^

JasZz says:
U HAVE SINNED!!!

JasZz says:
u know y...

JasZz"" says:
AHAHAHAHAHHA

arise, shine. says:
because i never bake muffins!

JasZz"" says:
-_-

Best part...later on, she asks

arise, shine. says:
hur hur

arise, shine. says:
so why have i sinned?

Coloured Hair

ok..to those who are very curious to know what my hair colour is now..here's some photos for you to see...i didnt bother taking a front picture of myself cause you wun be able to see the colour....these photos are very close up shots of my hair..






and this was when i still had black hair...

This holidays...

I remembered telling myself that i have a month of holiday to enjoy when i came back at the end of last month...given that i took a month of leave from my phd, i thought i would have some time to catch up on my work...

looking at things now...i miscalculated...i'm going back to melbourne in 14 days time and if i exclude the Chinese new year eve and the days that follow, i actually only have 8 days left....

there are still people i want to meet, goals to set, work to do and time to play...but i'm glad that i managed to spend time with my parents =) not going to trade anything for that..

somehow i feel that i've changed...nope, not talking about the physical aspect of me having a new pair of specs, perhaps a heavier body and a different hair colour, but i feel different about myself...my thoughts, my attitudes, my beliefs...they seem to be changing...i dunno if it's good or bad....

i think i have a lot of questions in my mind...questions that i ask myself and to which i have answers that seem to surprise me....

there are things that i look at and just exclaim "How can that happen?!"

i need to take a good look at people..i need to take a good look at myself....and i sometimes have a feeling, perhaps one day, i may just lose trust in people....but i know who my trust is in.. =)

Memory Lane

ok, just came back from KL today...and it was an awesome trip! was only there for a very short 3 days, but i must say that at least i spent all the time there to the full!

managed to meet quite a no. of people from melb, and also my ex-monash coursemates...some of whom i've never seen for about 3 years..hahaha! that meeting ended very abruptly..as we were talking at Asia Cafe in SS15, one person saw the police booking cars for illegal parking..and almost half the group left cause they had to move their cars away...lol! typical malaysians!

so my trip to kL was mainly to eat lots of missed malaysian food and to visit frens. a pity that i didnt manage to meet up with all that i wanted to, but at least i managed to meet some...i'm only human..^_^

this trip to KL was really a memory lane for me as well...i lived in there from 2004 to 2005 before coming to melb...and a lot has changed in KL...be it for better (expansions of shopping centres) or for worse (traffic jams and parking fees)....hahaha! as jon or jane or my brother drove me around, i would be brought back to those years when i myself was driving along those roads, going to places for appointments and yum chas....the language, the people, the food...all appeared so familiar to me =) more familiar than the food and places here in singapore....
for some reason, i have more emotional attachment to KL than to singapore...

this trip also gave me a lot of personal time (well...like after 1am alone in the room) to just reflect and plan for 2009...to spend time with myself, reflect and ponder about certain things and just withdraw myself from the pace of life, situations of life...just in my own world =)

anyway, just wanna shout out a big thank you to Calvin, Jon and Jane! You know why....hahahahahha!

oh wells...gonna start work soon again...well..working from singapore lar..not back in melb yet....17 more days to melb...

Hospital and Museum

For some reason, i was reminded of this quote:

"The church is a hospital of sinners, not a museum of saints"

nice thought eh?

anyway, digressing....i was surfing my supervisors webpage and i saw my name on it..hahahha! well, she just wrote that we were working on a paper together...
if you're interested to read what it is, here's the link:
http://www-personal.buseco.monash.edu.au/~gmartin/

Scroll down to the section "Papers Under Revision, Submission or in Progress" and the last line of that section.

btw..the picture is outdated. i think my supervisor looks so much better now than wat you see in the picture..she had a major hair-do..^_^