Leaving SV

This will be the last post I’m writing in my room here in SV. I’ll be moving to my new room 20 minutes walk away and only gawd knows how long before I can get the internet up and running at the new place.

The months sure have flown by real quick. It feels like it was just yesterday that I first move into my room to start a whole new chapter in my life. Now, my life as a student has not only ended (actually, it ended 2 weeks ago) but I’m gonna embark in a whole new chapter in my life soon – going into the working world! The idea of me being a responsible, working adult both excites and scares me to bits. But this is life ain’t it? You grow up, gather knowledge, skills and education along the way, and you work your arse off for the next 30-40 years to provide for yourself and your family. That’s the cycle of life. However, at the end of the day, it’s just up to us on how to lead our own lives. It’s up to us how we want our life to be, how we want to be remembered, how we want to leave our mark on the lives of everybody we met along the journey call life.

I’ve been packing things for the past 2 days and am still packing now. Gosh..I’ve only been here for 9 months and I’ve accumulated so much things! I can just imagine Mum’s face when she sees the things I ship home. I’m going to sell and give away a whole lot of stuff, some wholeheartedly, some reluctantly, before I leave for good.

Oops! I really shouldn’t be getting sentimental right now. It’s back to packing and then getting ready to go partying one last time before I leave this dear old room of mine! Til my next post (gawd knows when’s the next post gonna be), be good you all!

A room! A room! I finally found a room!

The contract with SV ends next Sunday and I have to move out to a new accomadation by then. Initially, I was suppose to move in with Eline but a miscommunication between the both of us had left me without a place to move into when SV boots me out in a week’s time. (isn’t it ironic and funny that a mass communication student like me still have miscommunications with people??) Anyway, I’d been a little frantic the past few days knowing that I’ll be practically homeless in a week’s time and had been asking friends around if they know anyplace that I can rent til April but to no avail.

Today, Eline, Jo and I went room hunting the whole afternoon and…yay! I finally found a room. It’s a cosy little place in a house about 15 minutes walk away from Uni. Will be sharing the place with 3 other girls and though I do not know them, I don’t mind. Frankly, I think I stay better with strangers than friends. The room is connected to a huge store room and the rest of the girls will not be entering the store room all the time. In short, I actually have extra space for things which I do not want to keep in my room. And the store room has an air cond, which means I have air cond when I leave the connecting door open. Overall, it’s a nice place. Plus points, the place is fully furnish.

The only downside is that there’s no internet connection. Plus, I have to fork out 8 weeks of rental and 4 weeks worth of bond at one go, which means a whole LOT of money. Hence, now, I’m desperate for a job soon. It doesn’t matter if it’s in retail or waiting, as long as I have some $$ coming in, I’m up for anything. Right..back to looking for jobs now.. *sigh*

Everybody’s going home

…but me. It’s been pretty depressing sitting at my table and staring out the window the past few days. Everytime I look up from whatever that I’m doing on my notebook, I see groups of people lugging their luggages with them, leaving their rooms in SV for their homes. No doubt I still have friends who will still be around for a few weeks before they leave but the thought of the lack of friends for the entire summer doesn’t seem like a welcoming idea after all.

Oh well, guess it’s better for me to plunge myself into work as much as I can while I’m here. But first, the task is to get a job, which I’ve been putting off time and again for the past few days. Bad..tis procrastinating bug in me..very bad. Hopefully, despite whatever job that I might get in the future, I’ll still be able to save enough of it (after paying rental and bills) to travel around Ozland after my graduation ceremony at the end of March.

Went to the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs’ (DIMA) office on Thursday to ask about visa extension and the sorts. The man at the reception was a nice middle age chap who patiently answer any sort of queries I had bout visas and my wanting to extend my stay here in Perth. Was greatly relieved to learn that I’m able to stay on til March on my student visa, thus being able to work legitimately on my working permit. However, I have to apply for a visitors visa if I want to travel around Australia after my graduation, which is what I have planned for the time being. It all depends on what sort of job I get and how much I’m able to save for the next couple of months.

Found out a week ago that my whole family’s coming down for my graduation ceremony in March. That’s a convoy of 12 people!! O_O I know I should be happy that the whole family is coming down to witness such an important event in my life but for the life of me, I can’t seem to be able to muster much excitement or happiness on that fact. I guess it falls largely on the fact that I had only expected a few people in the family to show up, namely Mum, Grandma and Aunt Sandy. It’s just ironic and in a sense, quite hypocritical for a few of the rest of the family to want to attend the ceremony because these few people are the very same ones who had looked down on me for choosing arts over science and had continually criticise my so-called unwise choice of choosing a major that supposedly is useless. And now, they want to bask in my joy for finally graduating and pretend that they’ve been very supportive all along?? What a bunch of hypocrites!

Jeez…I don’t know why I’m being bitter about their lack of support. I’m not trying to be an ungrateful, prodigal child of the family cause at the end of the day, they are still my family and surely blood runs thicker than water. But I just need an outlet to release my frustration on these few family members cause time and again, they’ve shown me that Mum and I are just inferiors subjects in the family who do not deserve respect and the right treatment. For God’s sake! They treat outsiders way better than they treat either Mum or I.

Oh dear, I have no idea how I even got into a rant about family. I guess the reality of everybody around me going home when I choose to stay behind has an affect on me. No doubt it’s my own choice for wanting to stay, yet, the thought of everybody being able to see their families so soon while I have to wait for nearly another 6 months does give one a low morale for a while. So yeah, everybody’s going home. But my turn will come after the first 1/4 of next year.

*sigh* 

I miss my Mummy… *sniff*

The 10 stupid questions tag

Been tagged by Jo to do this for quite some time. Didn’t have the time to do it til now coz of deadlines (plus feeling kinda lazy too )

1. How do you measure beauty/handsome? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, don’t need benchmark to measure.
2. What is the biggest lie you have ever told your girlfriend/boyfriend? What lie? I’m always honest with him.
3. Name one of your good & bad habits. Why is it so hard to think of good habits but so easy to think of 101 bad habits?
4. What’s your most overused phrase? …sia, wah lau, c***t, …man
5. What you can’t live with? Music!! But my boo tops the list..
6. Tell me about your fantasy. I could tell you..but then I’d have to kill you after that.
7. How do we know each other? Through blogsphere.
8. Tell me about your first crush. When? How? First crush..hmm..I was 13/14. We used to take the same school bus and he looks incredibly cute with specs. Plus, he’s a basketball player and looked hot in his tan. Last I saw him, I wondered what ever made me had a crush on him! Haha..
9. What do you hate the most? Rats and hypocrites.
10. What colour do you like the most? Why? Blue. No reason..it just is my favourite.

[Edit]: In my haste to post this, I forgot to come up with 10 stupid questions and tag fellow bloggers. As I have no wish to add stress on those I wanna tag (coz they’re stress enough with exams now), let this tag end here with me. Haha…

Nostalgia in the midst of stress

This entry was meant to be posted last week.

So, anyway, last week was the busiest and most stressful week in this entire semester for me. Deadlines were piling up and I had to made time to prepare for presentations for 2 different units. Murphy’s law decided to strike continuously for 2 weeks and everything that had been going smoothly up til then went haywire. I had to pace myself several times in order to take control of the situation or else risk the chance of having nervous breakdowns. It is the midst of all these stress and haywire that I (and Meiling) managed to find peace by watching nostalgic DVDs.

We had to watch Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast to prepare ourselves for our presentation in Children and the Media and it’s been ages since we last watch either animation. There we were on a Tuesday night, making ourselves comfortable on my bed while watching both animations on my laptop. I’m not too sure about Meiling but the experience for me was one of nostalgia.

Suddenly, I’m transported back to my childhood times, getting all excited about the lives and destiny of these 2 Disney princesses. It feels like I’m a part of their lives once again, just like how I used to surround myself with fairy tales and get so engrossed reading their stories daily. For the next 3 hours or so, the looming stress and deadlines were all forgotten.

The few hours that night did us a lot of good, me especially. The nostalgia of childhood was a welcome diversion at the peak of our stress level.