of you and me...of nows and thens...^ ^

THEN:

a) bread????bluek.....only toasted versions of bread or sandwiches-like-bread

b) gym???don't want larhhh...lazyyy...

c) GeeeZZZZ..i can't finish my food..i'm gonna leave it here..

d) laundry??...uh..yea...put the clothes in....and uh...put water???soap???....uh..then press that button there..yea..that...uh...green??no wait...that red one..YEAAAA...that red one.....UH-OH...oooopssssss???

e) OMGGGG....this is so niceeeeeeeee....how much???RM 50???ok ok ..i'll take..i'll take...

f) WTH?????RM 200 for this bloody thing????u gotta be kidding me....nonnnoono

g) WHAT????WALK SO FAR????SIAO ARH???take cab take cab

h) ya...ya..


NOW:

a) OMG!!!!BREAD!!!!! yummmm yuummmm...which one should i take??this one??or this one???hang on hang on...THAT ONE!!!! OHHH...NUTELLA TOOOO!!!
- i've been in a whole nutella craze thingie. i bought a glass(literally) of nutella last week, and i've been eating it practically everyday since. right after dinner, right b4 i sleep, right after school, yada yada yada..i suppose u get the picture..^^
and i've been eating lotsa bread compared to the amount i used to eat back in malaysia. HECK..i'm even eating expired bread!!!!!today is the 30th of march, and my loaf of bread expires today, but not wanting to waste the bread, i'm eating it. some of the slices are mouldy, and i'm checking through the pieces of bread before i eat them. with nutella of course.

this would NEVER have happened in malaysia.

so much for gardenia, so good you can even eat it on its own. shhheeeeshhh

b) WHAT???GYM????ok ok ..lets go..what time??11 pm??ok ok..call me before you go

- well, basically, all i do in the gym is play with some of the equipments. i like the treadmill, the bicycle, and that rowing contrapment thing. quite fun....especially when u go in the middle of the night!!!! rite after gym sessions, are supper and pool sessions rite up till 1 am, then yours truly will head back to her room and doze the nite awayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

c) *eats eats eats* huh???you cannot finish your food ah??nvm nvm..when u cannot eat, then u can pass to me. i'll finish for you. (mind you, australian portions are BIG)

- lets just say i've been eating a whole lot more than what i used to in malaysia, which is already quite a LOT. i think i'm returning to malaysia as a pig....a huge one. but oh so cute and cuddly!!!MWAHAHHAHAHAHA

d) I LOVE LAUNDRY!!! OMG!!!!how can u do laundry only once in 2 weeks???!!??!?!? must dooooooooooooo..donno how??i teach you......first put in water (otherwise clothes may get stained by the detergent. happened to my mom b4), then put in the detergent. put in your clothes, set the dial, close it, and let it wash. when done, clear up the dryer's lint filter. dump in your clothes and set the timer.

- i never realized the JOY in laundry...........

e) WHAT????AUSD 50????eh..not bad ah..quite good quality. but then, aiyor..so expensive...50 multiply 3...RM 150..aiyorr....iishh...hmm....nvm la nvm la..once in awhile...ok lah...i'll take it..

f) HAR???????? AUSD 84????!?!?!??!?!?!?! for this jacket???OMGGGGGGG..quite cheap weiii...multiply 3.....RM 255...OMG!!!!!!!!DAMN FREAKING EXPENSIve...POKAI POKAI...HABISLAHHHHH...nono..can't get...but wait..i'm homesick!!!! mommy says buy something to make me happy...OK OK ....BUY!!!!WARHAHHAHAHAH.....come to australia..cannot multiply....otherwise u'll never get ANYTHING....

g) walk only lah...quite near wat.....

- i'm quite used to walking, having to walk to uni everyday. it takes about an average of 20 minutes to uni, but depending on where my lecture/tutorial is. so, walking isn't really a problem for me now...

h) yeah...yeah....

- everyone here says yea yea...so if i said ya, or yes, or yup...it's gonna be weird. so somehow, the yeahhhhh word has assimilated into my vocabulary...much to my delight/disgust.

sheesshh

good day ppl!!!

of cooking and eating and eating and eating.....

so heyyyyy....great news...i've long long overcomed my homesickness!!!!WEHEHEHHE..well, mainly i was homesick because i was really ill, and i felt quite...depressed upon recovering. i have no idea why though.........

i was talking to issac that day, and somehow we reached upon the topic of cooking.

AND NOW SHE (I) WOULD PROUDLY LIKE TO ANNOUNCE.......


THAT SHE(I) CAN COOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

if you count vegetables, luncheon meat, and stuff like that la... ^ ^

we've all got cooking partners/groups, me being paired with jia yun(stairway-mate) out of personal choices.

she(jia yun) CANN cook, which is great, coz then i shall be learning from her in every way.

so far, we've already cooked fried rice, herb soup, tom yam, some assorted-like-campur-saja dish..and so on so on

it's really cool how we all use the common kitchen at the same time. everyone will be laughing while frying, whilst ppl like me go around, butting into others' cooking and demanding recipes that i may never ever try out.

after we're all done cooking, we sit at the "dining table" and eat away.........
of course, we steal each other's food a lot, saying that we're sooooo in it for the taste.........but what we usually do is to compare all our food at once. who cooked the best, who's the most efficient..and so on so forth, which is honestly quite entertaining at times. LOL

then we just sit there and talk and talk and talk.

since arriving in melbourne, i think the one thing i've done the most....is to chatter away. (p/s: note the word chatter....^ ^) i'm not surprised. but then again, who is?? :P

monday nights are usually spent in the mess dining hall.
we all meet up at about 9.30 pm and have cakes and coffee as a late nite supper thing and basically chat the night away. surprisingly, the cakes at the dining hall are realllllllyyy good, which is in total contrast with their evening meals that they serve everyday. OWH, but their desserts in the evenings are just gorgeous!!!!!

i guess the chef is very specialized in making desserts. either that, or they hire caterers for their desserts.

i'm still very malaysian-ized........don't plan to get australianized anytime soon.....

AND OHHHH!!!!!!!!

AUNTY YONG HAS GIVEN BIRTH!!!!!!! A BIG BIG CONGRATULATIONS TO BOTH AUNTY AND UNCLE YONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SOMEBODY, PLS PLS SAY HI TO BABY YONG FOR ME??aND SNAP SOME PICTURES TOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WELCOME TO S2 DEAR BABY YONG... =)

homesickness

.....i've never ever felt sooooo homesick in my life................

i thought i was coping just fine in the first few weeks, but looks like it's just this week that my bout of homesickness has gotten stronger. ARGHHHHHHHh....i think it's a gradual process of homesickness....so much so..that i wanna go home RIGHT now....ARGH....i miss malaysia..i never thought i would..i mean i knew i would..but i never expected this much..

i miss my family soooo sooo much, not to mention all my frens as well..it's just not the same over here. i mean, yeah..i have my beautiful bunch of frens whom i can rely on here..but it's just not the same. nothing is. i want my parents here with me, i wnat justin and my friends here with me. ARGH...life is hard..i can't wait to be back....

=(

UPDATES UPDATES UPDATES

ok ok ok ...i know it's been LONNGGG since i blogged, and honestly, none of you really know what's currently going on in my life. i apologise. ^ ^

i've been quite lazy busy actually, going for classes, doing my laundry, hanging out with friends, that i kinda forgot about the existence of my blog. so teruk lah...maaf maaf

so anyway, i'll try to summarize what's been going on since i arrived.

we'll start with week one.

PRE-WEEK ONE (as in arrival)

i arrived, dumped my suitcase on the floor and walked about campus with minchiee on day one. i then met jia yun who lives one floor below me, and that nite itself, we all hung out to play pool in the common room. quite fun...^ ^

so basically, i met lotsa ppl around uni, and on the third day, we hung out at one of our rooms til 1 am plus...not bad for ppl whom just got to know each other.

on the third day of arriving, we all headed down to victoria nite market where a few seniors led the way. not bad...managed to see tzemeng there, although i so badly wanted to meet suet ning but i had to go back early... =(

WEEK ONE (RICHARDSON 0-WEEK)

i suppose the most interesting event that happened in week one would be the toga party that we had in the richardson common room, organized by the 0-week members.

you know julius caesar and the white robe he wears all the time??yea..that was the main dress code for the party. EVERYONE was expected to wear one and attend and of course...everyone used bedsheets. what else?? ^ ^

it's quite cool how everyone came in bedsheets, and danced the nite away..(yeaa..they had disco lights on and a hired dj to play the songs!!!oh..and booze as well..although the deputy college head (denuja) said i couldn't drink coz i'm under 18...but...hehehe..u know me lahhh....^ ^), after the toga party, a few of us just lay on the grass in bed sheets and talked a lil and made fun of each other, and then crashed someone's rooms and chatted til the wee hours, and then we all headed back to sleep...LOVEEED THIS EVENT!!!

we also had a trip to sidetracked, which was basically all about go-karting, arcades, and some laser maze like thing. not bad, really... ^ ^

we also had a kinda ice-breaker orientation week where we played games and had freee food all the way. after the whole games session, there was a karaoke session, and i know most of the s2-rians won't believe this, but HEYYYYY...I CAN SING!!!WAHHAHAHA...don't ask me, ask the PS2. it rated my singing...and i'm proud of it...^ ^

so well, lots happened in week one, but i can't remember, so i'll just be posting pictures up and stuff like that. the main thing to remember here is...FREE FOOOOODDDDDDDDD!!!!!! breakfast in the morning, lunch in the afternoon, and dinner at nite......YUMMMm..although most of the time, they serve us with bbq food. but anywayyyy....yeaaaaa....LOL

WEEK 2

this is where things get less happy-go-lucky like, as classes began officially on the 28th of february ( i started a day later than the rest as i went for the transitional camp in phillip island. it wasn't too bad, but i really missed my room in the hall and i missed home in malaysia a lot at this point of time..LOL)

it's kinda hard for me, as my timetable changes every week. REALLY...

and my contact hours are 28 -30 hours per week, and i do have sessions where i go on for FOUR HOURS straight with no break at all, and practical (BLS first aid) for 3 hours. i usually start at 8, rarely 9, and end either at 3 or 5.

SOMETIMES, i do get a weird break in the middle, for example 2 hours with nothing to do, but hang around the campus area til my next class..lectures are quite boring, but tutorials aren't really bad!! and they have this thing here where almost everything is self-directed learning, meaning own research and own info kinda thing. i'm not quite used to it yet, but i hope i will be soon.

WEeK 3

went down to the city on the saturday, and met up with the s2rians!!!! met tzemeng, yiping, denny, weichuen and suetning!!!!they all look mighty happy to me, so i guess eveyrone is coping well!!!!!!

so well, that's about it. i've been here for about 3 weeks already!!!time really flies man..no doubt, i miss everyone of you!!!! i hope u monashirians have fun at uni and to those in other parts of aussie..TAKE CARE!!!!!autumn...YAYYYYY...and to S2-rians....HUGZ!!!!!

pictures will be up!!!!!

love,
su wen


me, jia yun and sandra in the toilet dressed in bedsheets!!!wooohooOOOooOoOoO



a few of us sitting outside the "starbucks" like cafe thing outside the common room. there's only two of those standing tables though.....-_-"..so much for starbucks..LOL

boon kiat, jasmine, me posing for the camera while dancingggg!!!!!!weeeeeeeeeeeeeee

meet pranava sivabalan...the pimp-yang-tak-jadi..LOLLL
me and minchiee posing with pranava aka tangachi in my room, dressed in togas

us on the grass outside the common room..

me, jia yun and sandra

sw: HOODY HOODY!!!!

tangachi: yea yea!!!

*snap*

sw: .......eh...why does it seem so familiar.....

(flashback: there was a hoody picture in taylor's as well i think...suet, michelle, and tzemeng??)

thinking ohhhh so hardddd

at the bowling alley

i told you there're always pictures of me eatingggg....with that weird facial expression and my mouth being open....aiyoyoo..