Small world

Just when you thought the past is the past and everything’s left behind for good, just when you thought you’ll never have any sort of connection with the people you met in the past, you just find something that totally blows up in your face leaving you breathless for a moment. You take the time to think about what you’ve found out and marvel at the sheer audacity of the whole thing. I just can’t believe it!

I was blog browsing a moment ago since I had nothing better to do but laze around. As I was blog hopping, I found a blog that was linked from the blog of an acquaintance from my hometown. I saw some pictures in the blog but wasn’t too sure if it’s the same person. That got the nosey parker in me starting and before I know it, I’m browsing through Friendster looking for pictures that will confirm my suspicion. And when I saw the pictures, I was horrified! I was stupefied! I was speechless! I can’t believe Clayton’s gf is the same girl who used to hang out with the ex’s friends!

I’d met her countless of times before whenever we go out as a group for mamak sessions. And I’d heard stories about her that was not too sterling (am not saying that my own story and behaviour are completely sterling either) but you know how it is, the impression of the girl just dropped. I’m not too sure how much she knows about my ex and I since the ex and I were still together when I knew her. Hopefully, nobody leaks out what happens in the past cause I just want to keep things as that; – IN THE PAST.

Sheesh…talk about a blast from the past.

New Semester

School’s gonna start soon in less than 2 weeks time. In less than 24 hours, Jo’s gonna be here to join Meiling and I in the crazy lives we lead here. I really can’t wait to see her. I hope she’ll adapt more easily to life here than I did. I know I had some trouble at the beginning because I was feeling so lonely most of the time. But with Meiling and me here, I doubt she’ll have trouble adapting though.

I’ve been too lazy to come online to chat, check my emails, read blogs, much less blog. The lazy bug had taken hold of my being lately and all I want to do lately is just sleep, sleep and sleep! The cold and chilly weather really just makes one wants to stay in bed the whole day doing nothing. Of course the times when I’m awake and about, I devote myself to do house chores especially when it comes to rearranging things in my room. It seems to be the latest craze in my itenary lately.

Haven’t been anywhere during these holidays and it felt like a waste of time. But there are certain constraints that prevent me from going on holidays around Ozland. First will definitely be $$$. Mum had asked me to go out and explore Perth during the holidays but saying is so much easier than doing it when money have to be taken into serious consideration. I can imagine Mum literally jumping up and down back home if I spend a lot going on holidays. She thinks one can go on holidays without spending a single cent, well, in her ideal world that is. When I mentioned $$ when she asked me to go explore Perth, she just kept quiet and change topics almost immediately. Oh well, I’m sure I can go somewhere in the coming one week break during the semester.

Results are out and I’d passed everything! No distinctions this time around but I’m still grateful for the results I’d gotten. I knew I wouldn’t be getting any Ds this time around cause I wasn’t doing as well as I like. YK and friends all said I’ve put in my best effort but if my best effort here can only yield credits, then I guess I have to put in 150% effort to get Ds. That and I definitely have to cut down on my drinking and partying and my favourite past time – procrastinating. ;P Anyway, I can’t wait for school to start soon. I’m looking forward to attending classes and tutorials and stimulate my brains to work once again since leaving it dormant for the past month or two is doing more damage to me than I would like. When I said damage, I mean being lazy and all, not damage as in brain damage or something, I’m sure you people get what I mean.

Thanks to Annie’s message yesterday in MSN, I managed to get hold of Joyce’s email and added her into my MSN Messenger list. I haven’t seen that woman for close to 10 years now! Managed to chat with her just now and am planning to go visit her in Sydney during the one week break if I can. Hopefully, things will conspire to turn out right this time around. But if I can’t make it, we’ll still be meeting each other during Sherny’s wedding early next year. Speaking of weddings, Sherny’s the first in our group to get married. Can you believe it? I’ve never envision her to be the first to get married in our group, especially when we’ve not even turn 24. Wow…but I do admire her for her courage to commit herself. The idea of her getting married is getting easier to accept since I found out she’s gotten engaged early this year. Now, the hardest thing for me to do is imagine her being pregnant. The image of her with a big, round belly just refuse to come into my mind no matter how I try to conjure it up. Guess I’ll just have to see it to believe it when the time comes!

Oh, and another fact that I doubt anybody would be interested in but I’d still like to share, I’m now officially a caffeine addict! I can’t function at all when I’m awake from bed, not even after taking a long, hot shower. The only fuel to get me up and going is coffee. It’s even worse for a fact that I love having coffee without any sugar at all. Oh gosh…

The first half of 2006

Time sure flies doesn’t it? At the blink of an eye and half a year had already flew past. Recounting back to the days before I flew over to Perth, I was complaining bout how slow time is going and how much I’m looking forward to Perth. Fast forward to the present and I still find it hard to believe that I’d spent the last four and a half months of my life here in Perth as a student. A lot had happened in these last few months, some expected, a lot unexpected. However, whatever that happened here will forever be cherished and kept dearly in my heart, yes, even the bad, because time will never turn back for me to relive them all again.

The first 6 months of 2006 had taught me many things and given me so much to remember. I met new people who had made an impact in my life – big and small. I experience new things that I would never ever get to experience if I stayed in Malaysia. I wonder what’s in store for me in the remaining 6 months of 2006. Although I cannot predict what’s going to happen in the next 6 months, I hope that whatever that do happen will continue to contribute to give me experiences worth remembering for the rest of my life.

I hope the first 6 months of 2006 had been a memorable time for everybody out there. Here’s wishing everybody another good 6 months ahead.