Melbourne

Just finished enrolment and got my student card. I'm now officially a student of the University of Melbourne.

Arrived here at 10am, Wednesday 20 Jan, and it was raining. Rained until errmmm..... 5pm i think. Then the next day was HOT!! And it's cloudy today. What'll it be tomorrow?

My room here at International House. The Internet here is crappy though. The quota's only 200 Mb per week (and A$0.05 per extra Mb). And I can only go online 5 hours at a time. What else? oh yeah, apparently "action will be taken if this limit is unacceptably exceeded". !@#$%

The House has about 240 students here. At today's breakfast alone I think i met more people than I actually want to. There's Shunsuke and Yuni (i think) from Japan, both exchange students, Michael, a soft-spoken Aussie chap, Dorm ( I think, really unsure how to spell it) from Mauritius, Charlie, no idea where he's from, yet, Alex, an American Vietnamese from Seattle, a Singaporean girl whose name i either dont remember or she didnt say. Damn. I'm not even sure I can remember their faces. And that was only half my table of 8. And there are more students coming. Info overload!

The briefings at the University was rubbish. So boring I fell asleep. Met another (!) Singaporean there and saw a few old schoolmates. But it was mostly a waste of time. At least the accounting lecturer was animated and lively, not the dead-man walking for Econs while the Finance fellow was somewhere in between. Too bored to continue after that.

Gonna nap now..... Until next time....

Monday 18th February 2008. The day of my driving exam.

Woke up damn early, at 6 a.m., which was already later than planned (5.30 a.m.). Anyway, since I woke up late, I had to go without breakfast. No problem there. Then the instructor came at 6.30 to fetch me to the office, where we were supposed to wait for the gal who was taking the exam on that day too. She arrived at 7.20. I could have made my breakfast, eaten it, and even slept a fair bit more. But the worst was yet to come.

We left the office at 7.30 (or thereabouts). Then we went on the NKVE. And the car broke down.
We were going for a driving exam and the car broke down. If that’s not ironic, I don’t know what is.

Anyways, turns out the bloody car was out of petrol. Something so avoidable, something so basic, and it happens. Murphy’s Law or Sod’s Law, whichever name you use, was at work. “What can go wrong will go wrong, at the worst possible moment.”

The car finally started at 8.20 or so. Next stop, Transport Department Headquarters. Apparently our request to take the exam on Monday was rejected and therefore we had to appeal. Another hour wasted there.

We finally reached the examination center at about 10. Then another long wait.
At 11, I took the on-the-road test. (I’m not admitting to any knowledge of any bribery or anything here.) The examiner was an idiot with an attitude problem. When I was turning out of the exam center, I had to stop at the junction because there was a jam. There was a garbage truck directly in front of me, obviously blocking my turn to the left. And what did the idiot say? “Move-lah!! What are you waiting for?”

Anyway, I was the last person to finish the exam (at about 3) because I was the last to register, due to the bloody rejection and subsequent appeal.

Passed.

Read a letter to the editor in the papers last week. This Malaysian who had been working overseas was pissed off because he wasn't allowed to bring his nephew and niece in to watch Meet The Spartans. Obviously they were under 18 and thus not allowed to watch it due to the Malaysian 18PL rating for it. In my opinion he was making a mountain out of a molehill. Fool. He said that the impression given by the trailer was that of a wholesome family movie. Idiot. If the cinema people let him and his relations in, he would have complained that he was misled. I haven't seen a movie so full of lewd, sexual jokes in a long while. If he hadn't watched the movie beforehand, why did he want to bring them to watch it? And he didn't check the cinema listings in the papers first. ~speechless~

About that case of the child-porn-possessing pilot, how in the world did they know he had that in his laptop in the first place? Invasion of privacy, that's what it is. Why is there such a fuss? If it was normal, heterosexual porn no one would give a damn. His sexual preferences aren't anyone else's business. Although I agree that child porn is abhorrent and disgusting, the blatant disrespect for his privacy is worse. And don't forget, out of the 3 clips they found, only 1 was child porn. The offence was for that and that alone.

On a lighter note....... WHY COULDN'T JAY CHOU'S CONCERT BE 1 WEEK EARLIER? I wanna go....... TT__TT . It's been ages since he last came to Malaysia for a concert and I have to miss it just because I have to go to Melbourne to start university. The most talented person in the Asian music scene is coming and I'm not going to his concert. WHHYYYY?????

One of my all-time favourite songs (if not THE favourite song) must be Jay's Nocturne. (It's on my playlist, 3rd song). Wonderful tune, combining rap and R&B. Lyrics a little unwieldy, but good enough to bring out the story of mourning for a dead lover. Which reminds me. Sadly, I'm free on Valentine's Day.

WHHYYYYYY?????

Fur trade=sick

Pledge to go fur-free at PETA.org

This is NOT recommended viewing. This video just shows how sick people can become when motivated by money.

I remember doing a presentation on animal abuse last year, I thought I was disgusted. I was wrong. This is much, much worse than what I came across during my research.

The sick flers in the video can go to hell.