Lamington + sweet chilli

Last week was a friend's birthday.

We had buffet.

Then my friend suggested a game.

If you guys watch Super Trio Show, it was the game where someone loses when they've said the number that appears in the tv.

Whoever lost must eat some shitty food.

I lost the first game and I ate Lamington (which wasn't so bad after all)

So I got the chance to take some shitty food from the buffet for the next loser to eat.

There was once while I was away, everyone made up the whole game to make me lose.

I brought back Lamington coated with sweet chilli.

So this game I was destined to lose.

I had to eat the shitty food that I brought back myself!

Man, LAMINGTON + SWEET CHILLI!

As soon as I put half of it in my mouth, I wanted to puke it out.

In the end, I really did!

I went to the toilet.

When I came out my friend hasn't finished his one bowl of moose since the second game!

So I exchanged with him and he agreed.

I finished up the moose in a few seconds.

So he had no choice but to finish the other half of my Lamington + sweet chilli......

And guess wot?

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He puked as well!

LOL!

Everyone was laughing like hell.

Big 2, Big Time!!!

I was so damn tired these couple of days.

Been playing mahjong, big 2 and drinking.

Drinking makes my body tire the next day and it makes me wanna sleep as well.

Yesterday I played big 2 with a couple of friends.

Whoever have the most cards must drink water.

10 cards below - 1 glass

10 cards and above - 2 Glasses

13 cards - 3 GLASSES!

LOL~ Insane!

We were so damn full!

Instead of drinking 1 full glass of water,

we drank other alternatives, 1/2 glass of pure spirits, aloe vera and milk.

In the end we all drank water, coz we ran out of alternatives!

Man, I went to the toilet for SO MANY TIMES!!!

I was the one who drank the least.

But still I drank aloooooooot!

A friend who has the best skills in Big 2 lost the most coz he has really bad luck and always got 10 cards and above at end of the game.

In the end, we had to stop the game or eles our kidney's gonna burst!

Piano practical exam

The other day I just had my piano exam.

I was nervous as hell.

LOL

My friends told me they always wore skirts when they had their piano exams.

My piano teacher told me I shouldn't wear jeans.

OK!

So I wore skirt and a tube with a strip going around my neck.

But then it turned out everyone was wearing casual.

They wore jeans and some guys' attire were so scruffy.

Anyways my exam was in a church.

I was very nervous.

I played the first piece and I screwed up.

LOL

My teacher told me to look at the score while playing for the first piece.

But I think I can do it so I have the score put aside.

DAMNATION!

Then the examiner told me to start playing the second piece.

And I requested her to give me 5 seconds to calm down.

LOL

The second piece was alright but I kinda screwed up at the ending part which was expected.

When I was about to start playing the third piece,

the examiner asked me back if I need 5 seconds to calm down.

LOL

Then I was like, "errr, ok"

The third piece was alright.

As for others like sight-reading and aural test, I was ok with them.

The examiner asked me to guess the time signature.

I guessed it wrongly saying it's a duple.

She gave me another chance.

So obviously the answer was quadruple.

Overall, it was a funny experience.

But I must say the grand piano was so damn nice to play on.

It was not too much of a problem for to play on a grand

coz I played it alot in another uni.

Grand pianos are the best!

Comedian

This guy's funny. He broadcasts himself on Youtube to fame. Jessica Alba and Baron Davis actually responded to his staring competition and waste paper basket competition.

Paine's Theme

This is Paine's Theme from Final Fantasy X-2 Piano Collections.

It's jazz and jazz music has weird rhythms.

I really like the way this guy played this song. He's very skillful.

I can't play this song because I know my own standards.

If I would ever master this song it would probably take a year or so.

I believe Sharon can play this.

Ganbatte!!!

Windows Vista Home Premium

The 3 pictures below are the printscreen of my desktop.

I really like the Google Desktop (the side bar of my desktop) because I can customise it by adding applications that I like.

Here, I've added a digital and an analog clock.
I can set alarm for the digital one to wake me up.
Then there's the Weather Globe where I can check the daily weather at a glance.
Then I've got the pictures slideshow
I've also got a-list-of-things-to-do which is a reminder.
I have this Einstein and Real Estate Daily Quotes which are pretty cool.
I can also add things like Google Map, YouTube videos etc.

When I maximize my window, the sidebar will still be at the side

Because I set the Google desktop always-on-top.

The latest Real Player 11 Gold is very nice which the theme matches the Vista theme.

When I Switch-between-Windows which is the middle icon right beside the start menu, it lays out the windows as shown in the picture above.

I can select the desired window then resume my activities at maximised screen.

The bad thing about laptops nowadays are that they dont have Microsoft Office.

It really sucks when I dont have a MS Office coz I cant really do my assignments and stuffs.

So today I beh tahan and I downloaded the trial version of MS Office 2007 and finally I can start doing my assignments.

Big Bang

The love and feeling

They're just simply amazing,

I need you in my life.

But love is breaking,

You know my situation

I have to say goodbye.

Love is pain

and I cry, cry.

I love you

I love you not.

I miss you.

Come back to me.

Staff Party

Oh yeah! I forgotten. I think I should blog about the staff party that I've joined. So yeah, my mentor told me to go to the staff party which was to celebrate the end of the company's financial year. The party was the day before the commencement of my second semester. My mentor told me that I could bring a "partner" so I brought my friend along. At least there was someone accompanying me coz I seriously don't know many people there.

Well, it was pretty fun. I went bowling at Ten Pin Bowling and I've got the chance to meet the company's managing director, directors, valuers and some other staff members and their partners. They were almost 30 people there. I socialised a bit with most of them and they were all very friendy. I played two games of bowling and I was tired like shit. I must say that I sucked at bowling coz I always had gutter balls.

LOL

They were snacks at Ten Pin and drinks as well. If I ever go back to Ten Pin to play bowling I will get 20% discount with the name of my company (not exactly my company but yeah. LOL) After the fun part we went for dinner at a Thai restaurant at Henley Beach. The menu was super expensive I must say and it was really hard to make a decision of what to order so someone decided to order the banquet.

The banquet was like around $40 and plus we have to order our own drinks which costed about a $50 meal per person coz we ordered the drinks a few times. LOL. I sat beside an ex-director/valuer and sitting in front of me was the managing director's wife. We chatted.

Overall, it was a pretty good experience coz I get to talk to alot of people. My friend and I were the only Asians in the whole entire night because there were no Asians working in the company. The best thing about it was that I didn't have to pay a single cent whether it be bowling or the dinner and I could enjoy the fun. It was all under company's expense and I must say that bowling in Australia is seriously not cheap.

Options

I think I havent actually informed some of you yet.

Anyways...

I'm currently taking piano lessons.

I've registered for ABRSM piano Grade 5 theory and practical exams.

It's a crash course coz everything was sort of last minute.

I'm asking a Bachelor music student from another uni to teach me piano.

Every week I have to meet my piano teacher's EXPECTATIONS in playing the right finger technique and there are plenty of theory exercises to finish up.

It's quite stressful actually but uni work is still my priority of course.

But seriously, I've got not much of uni work to do.

LOL

I have 3 days of classes per week i.e. Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays but since last semester I've already told myself that I wouldn't attend the Friday class coz I think it's close to uselessness which makes 2 days of classes per week.

So I occupied that day with the 2 hours of piano lesson.

I'm currently still in my mentor scheme.

I'm still looking for a part time or casual position but it's really not easy to find one.

Coz the companies all assume that INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS are "hard to communicate with".

I dont know how to change their mindset.

But I've asked my mentor to help me to send out enquiries.

By the end of September, I have an IELTS exam.

Scoring 7 for each assessment is not easy and I'm not very confident with it but I'll try my best.

But usually people taking IELTS is actually wanting to get the Aussie PR which is the same for me.

But I'm really reconsidering my options.

I think Singapore is not bad after all.

I'm thinking that I will apply the Aussie PR then after that go to Singapore to work for a few years then come back to Australia.

But I'll see how it goes.

My plan will always change.

I'd probably do some Voluntary work since I'm so free.

I'd really want to continue studying Finance if I can.

But seriously no money to do so.

Lol...

P.S. - I really miss my laptop when I'm at uni.

End of my Sony laptop's destiny

My Sony aptop can't be turned on again 3 weeks after I spilt milk tea on it.

I sent it for repair and the technician said the motherboard has died.

I tried to ask to him recover my data but to no avail.

The hard disk died as well.

I must get a new laptop.

So...

I bought Toshiba.

I bought it at Harvey Norman.

I added an extra AUS$99 to a 2 years extended warranty.

So it's a total of 3 years warranty.

Pretty good yeah.

I just couldn't stand the screen size of my old laptop - 10 inches.

So this is 14 inches screen size.

With Biometric lock (fingerprint lock) and face recognition lock.

My Sony laptop has only standard speakers.

My current one has really good sound system.

I don't actually need to use my 5.1 logitech speaker.

TheN it has keyboard shortcuts which is sort of like touch screen.

Obviously, it's white in colour.

It has Bluetooth and Webcam.

It has the latest processor - Intel Centrino 2 which was released few days ago.

It's in Windows Vista Home Premium.

The graphic is super clear.

It has the Google customization on desktop.

Pretty cool huh!

Lovin' it!