~Life is impermanent~

Last day of ski trip

2005-09-05T17:42:00.000+10:00

"Surprise" in the end of the ski trip?

It was drizzling in the morning until afternoon.The weather was bad,we managed to get a stroll in the Falls Creek village and took a chairlift to the Toboggan slope mountain.First of all, we need a pair of good boots to walk in the snow .Look at me, i was trying out those shows and wishing to pick up a good pair of boot to help me to walk through the thick and slippery snow.We then began our journey after getting the boots from the hire shop next to our accomodation.

We were all enjoying the morning walk in the village and was busy snapping photos while enjoying the village view.The cold and crispy air smell so fresh in the morning.

We went up the Toboggan slope mountain after the lunch,it was bloody cold up there, and the wind was strong we managed to took photos there by SQ tripod.We then leave Falls creek at around 2 :30 pm evening.

In the end of the trip, i actually got a big surprise on the bus .The surprise was that I won a DVD player in the lucky draw competition.I was so shocked when SQ announced it.I cannot believe my ears because i never even think of me winning that prize.Because i dun have good TV at home..plus a lot of asignments which keep on pouring onto me.But....ONE THING FOR SURE.I am blessed by buddha , maybe..hehe..When SQ announced me as the winner that time, he was so funny and acted so mysteriously .He never mentioned my name directly, he was actually letting everyone to take a guess on the winner by describing me.Good voice,good in hip hop dancing, skiing on skitrip etc...which actually makes me blushed cox i m not expert in hiphop dancing.^*-*^

If you all wish to view for more photos for the ski trip,feel free to visit the links below:

http://yad1.atspace.com/2005_fallscreek/2005_fallscreek.htm

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/janice_5008/album?.dir=9a3f

Skiing is FUN but with bruises...

2005-09-05T16:31:00.000+10:00

On the first day of the ski trip,I was the first one who woke up in the crispy cold morning because I thought there was suppose to be a Tai Chi going onas stated in the scheduled timetable . There was rain, so program's was cancelled. After breakfast, we all headed to the ski chairlift counter to buy our ski lesson ticket and started off the day with the 2 hours skiing lesson. For me, skiing is so hard to learn because so sad to say that I hadn't even learn how to play with roller blading .I managed to get the knack of skiing only around 2 or 3 hours after the lesson. I was so afraid to fall but the main part of skiing is to fall but with the right posture and as well as controlling the speed while skiing. I had always ended up falling in the wrong posture, so I was a paranoid all day long when it comes to a fall all the time. The most unlucky things that happen is to me and friends(Yanti's gang) was we went off to the wrong way while we were skiing. We went to the intermediate slope. We went tumbling and falling down (such as Humpty dumpy who sat on the wall and fell)all the way from the top to the bottom of the mountain slope. The funniest things is other people just need to use 5 minutes to ski down the slope which we had spend 2 to 3 hours on that slope. Yet, during the falling down period, we had all build up good friendship as we helped each other up whenever we each one of us fall down. We waited for each another while another our friends fell down again. The sloop was too steep for us beginner who had just began our lesson on that day. There is this old sayings which exactly describe our situation which is someone who never learn how to walk but wants to fly. After skiing down the mountain slope, our stomach went grumbling and we all went to had the hot potatoes wedges and sour cream which was so delicious and yummy. I managed to meet up my dear god sister Cammy. We got a chance to ski together for another one hour before we bid goodbye to each other. In the end, when i was backed to our accomodation lodge, i realised my legs were full with bruises.That was really a pay off for the ski fun!

After dinner, all of us was separated into 2 groups and we were about to start a snow fight. The games rules indicated that each group need to produce a snowman but the winner will need to hit off the snowman head by snowball. We then started building weapons which were the snowballs and had been planning out strategy to win our opponent. My group had came up with the brilliant idea to build a big snow wall in front of the snow man and in order to protect it. Our snow fight ended up with no winner or loser. Yet, there was something which was quite annoying had happened which was that stupid GN who crossed over the snow fight barrier illegally and attacked me. His intention was not attacking the snow man but me. I was so shocked, luckily my friend realised that and gave him a good kick and it stop him from continuing attacking me.I was so frustrated because my beanie and hair was all wet with that stupid GN attacking my head with snow. Yet, i slowly cooled down my temper and everything was back to normal again which i thought it was .But the answer WAS no, i started realising my friend VY was acting a bit weird and was unhappy during the ski trip, which really kill some of my holiday moods. After the snow fight, I went to the main lounge and joined the others to play cards games with them .Frankly speaking, i actually get to know BLIA friends better through the card games. I had voiced up some of my opinion towards FoGuangShan Youth club activities to the President(Alan).I wish that i can helped out with the committees next year if i m still around in Melbourne because i dunno where i will get my first job. I had a great talk with Alan and he had given me a lot of golden advices and opinions which will helps me through out my life. Thanks to him !The next day, I then only found out that he was my guardian angel during the skitrip.This was because all of us had been assigned a guardian angel in the beginning of the trip. He/she will not disclose their identity until the end of the trip. He really helps me as my mortal angel, giving wise advice and helped me at the right time when i was bullied during the skitrip.He was the one who Give the Idiot the kick on his back.hehe...^*-*^

Skitrip

2005-09-05T15:01:00.000+10:00

Skitrip which last for 3 days was fun actually except some small minor problem that arises and affect my feelings...

After finishing the auditing test on friday, i quickly rushed off to Carnegie to do the last minute shopping for the skitrip. I bought my beanie, ski glove , sunglasses and some snacks.I even packed my luggaged until late midnight at 3 am.How stupid am i , cannot make up deciosn wat tobring to the trip. It all ended up in a veyr big luggage which is thebiggest luggage in the whole bus.I dunno wat i bring as well, some extra clothes.Which i think i look clumsy on that big lugagge.

The next morning , i dragged the big luggage to the city, and carried it all the way to queens street art gallery.I was so shocked that i was actually the first one who arrived .

We all then headed off falls creek around 9:30.We reachtehre at around 4 o'clcok in the evening and we were all allocated to each of our room,and being brought to rent our ski equipment.

I was so excited with my ski lesson for the next day. When the night cames, GN invited me , to joinVY and VC and him to have dinner together.He brought the mobile stove which they decided to have steamboat.We had steamboat and they played magic card after the steamboat.I then decided to join the rest of them in the Italian restaurant and had had my vanilla ice-cream with choclate topping with lots of almond flake on it.Yummy...:P

I even played the soccer game machine in the cafe with the BLIA friends. I did some have some fun with the BLIA people in the restaurant. Enjoying their company there , and i had told myself i had never regret leaving VY, GN and VC they all playing cards.hehe...I think i canot be blamed cox i have no interest at all at the Magic cards.Sigh...

Holiday

2005-09-05T14:33:00.000+10:00

It has been ages that I never blog . Sorry again for those who had been always keeping an eye on my blogs .I guess because i was very lazy at that time. During the holiday, i admitted i played quite a lot. I did things which i dun use to do, such as playing computer games. I got to know Gani and Madeline during the holiday. They are both voon yee's friends.I watched a lot of movies and enjoy the company of Benjamin, Madeline, voon yee and gani. I even went basketball on some mondays with voon yee and friends.It has been a few years ever since high school that i practiced playing basketball.I cannot believe that my movement can still be so agile .I even did some swimming lap in the Clayton sports and recreation centre hehe...which turns out to be a good news which means that i m not old yet.hehe...^*-*^
I manage to get some pictures during the holiday in the Botanical garden.I get to sing karaoke, went shopping, and tried out some Indonesian Food in Blok M.

During the holiday, I actually tried to translate once in Fo Guang Shan.It is truly an experience for me. It is a bit tough initially but i manage to get over it.I realised that my memory is quite bad which i tends to forget about venerable's talk. However, i summarize her talks in brief and manage to bring out the essence of her talk.Lucky me, I had Alan to support me during my period of translation as SQ had went back Singapore for holiday. I believed that with more practice in the future will definitely make me improve more. I told me self I had to read up more books on Buddhism so i can truly deliver the true message by venerable and share the merits and Buddha dharma with the other Buddhist. In the end of my translation, there were actually some of my friends and audience who went up to me and praises me by saying i did a good job on the translation. This actually do help me to build more confidence in the future to translate in a better way.

Time flies, when uni starts, assignment start pilling up and I need to switch off my holiday mood ..then concentrate more on studies...and good news, I manage to complete my accounting degree and now applying for PR.Hopefully everything goes smoothly and i m really looking forward to get a good job as an auditor.

Miracle!Did i "STOP THE CLOCK"???!!!

2005-05-29T01:41:00.000+10:00

Something strange happen to me today.

Miracle!!!!

Today was actually one of my most relaxing day as i have alreadi told myself i m going to chant the whole sutra and listen to the dharma talk becox i have always been there late and miss a part of the chanting session. I have been stressing through out the whole week studying and i really need a break and recently a lot of doubts towards life .Maybe it is just too much stress!

So, today after listening to wat venerable yong wei had said, it actually just help to solve my problems which have been bugging me all these while. She even advised us on ways to take care of ourselves during the period of exam.While i was actually concentrating on her talk, i looked at Buddha face again!I think i saw him smiling to me, at that moment, i felt blessed my the buddhism power and grateful to buddha teachings!

Later after the dharma pratices and vegetarian lunch, SQ, Ooi Mun and Xue Ling had suggested me to try translating venerable yong wei dharma talk during the holiday,which is a big challenge and a big task for me, i have to translate in front of a lot of people, but luckily that is only small amount of people during holiday. I will need to read a lot of buddhism books and be prepared by then, which is after my exam!!!i have to do public speaking which i use to do it quite often when i was in my primary school days and high school days participating in story telling competition and debates.hee...but that was ages ago...i think my skills has been rusty nowadays,need some brush up on my oratorical skill. Definitely confidence need to be rebuild again with more readings.

ok,let me start my miracle story here...

I went on shopping trip today alone.I did buy quite a lot of stuffS, Shiseido facial cleaning set and some asian grocery stuffs. I was then a bit tired yet satisfied, preparing on my way home. Initially, i was thinking to go Carnegie to shop for some fruits on my way back home.But weather is so cold, and I was actually waiting for the Frankston line train which was going to arrive in 10 more minutesin Melbourne Central station.I then cancelled my trip to Carnegie as it is not going to stop at Carnegie but straight heading home(Glenhuntly) for me.

The train came and I went on the train as usual and i was going to sleep, but later i figure out the train seems to be coming back to Melbourne central station again(the original station when i step in the train) for the second times when i opened my eyes after a short 10 minutes nap.It looks weird to me, as the frankston train will not usually go around the city loop .Yet, i dun care, i closed my eyes, continue my nap. The minute i opened my eyes again, i was in Footscray, which indicated that i was actually in Weribbee line train, which turns out to be verystrange.I suppose to be heading South, yet the train was heading on the opposite direction to where i was suppose to go.I felt so blurred and helpless but to get off the train.But , blessing in disguise, i to go to a grocery shop in Footscray and bought my fruits which i thought i will be lack of time to do so.As if the Buddha is lnding me extra time to do so and even send me to the place which i wish to go.

Frankly speaking, i have always wanted to buy fruits at Footscray for ages because they are super cheap and valuable.But that is too far for me.To my surprise, i have no idea why i was being send there today to buy fruits.I had even discovered that something turns out to be very odd, i remembered it was going to be late alredi at 5:30pm, but it seems like my clock does not run as usual,it seems to be stopping there for 2 hours.When i was about to catch the train backto city and to change the train to go back Glenthuntly, i felt as if I m still located at the same time , as if the time passed so slow for me. I had the feeling I was been granted another 2 hours by Buddha. Becoxx.....SSHSHHH....I MAKE A WISH YESTERDAY!I WISH THAT I CAN STOP THE CLOCK FOR A WHILE. DEEP IN MY HEART, I THINK ONE DAY 24 HOURS IS NOT ENOUGH TOO.(Whcih i just remebered)Coz i have been staying at library and study till11:00 pm everyday, and realise time is not insufficient for me.

And the most mysterious and weird thing that happen to me is why i m in the werribbee line train when i was actually on my way back home(frankston )line.I was pondering over the incident when i was on the teleconferencing with my auntie and my mom. Then i realised that Buddha or the bodhisattva may wanted me to witness the existence of time zone miracles.As today the whole day, i can feel that my mind is very clear, calm, peace and it is just like a mirror after chanting the sutra .

I felt proud to withness this miracle, as I experienced once with the clock being stop once in my lifetime!Now, i do believe that there is always another time zone happening around us at the same place ,location just as what the" matrix" film shows.

Nowadays, i feel the strength and powerfulness of buddhism power which becomes part of my life.I feel it strongly in me whenever i take any action.I will relate to Buddhism, i think Buddha is trying to let me see clearly in the way I take my perception towards life. Time is not always a matter to us in real life!!!The most important thing is you have to get own task being done properly.

Exam coming, i think Buddha is warning me not to be panic and i can always finish my task in the end,Time is not a concern matter !!!This reminds me on Doris Ang's talk(a psychologist from Singapore) said that 90% of your worries will not become true.

Lukily, i had started revising the advance accounting. So , one more week to go for Exam !

Will be continued....

One more to go...then exam!

2005-05-15T00:54:00.000+10:00

Today, was indeed an efficient day too.As usual, i went to temple and pray.Everytime i go to temple, I will get to find true self and always find peace there as well .A self-reflection on myself for the whole week is automactically being done while chanting and repentance is being made everytime i say the prayer after chanting.

Venerable Yong Wei have always been a good teacher in giving dharma talk which has always set a good mirror to me for a great reflection on myself and get myself to be enlightened with buddhism teachings.This week, i actually bring a lot of unsolved problems with me to the temple will my brain filled with many "???" .My depressed feeling these few days which was resulted from the assignments was then being cleared today again.

So glad!!!That is wat i always like to praise Buddha.He is the best psychologist.The magnificent power of wisdom of Buddha always bring me back to the right path of life. It always get me to see the real cycle of life.The perceptive of looking into the human world will always let us see our problems which arise"sufferings" .

Today, venerable yong wei discussed about the cause, condition and effect. She let us see that everyone will not be able to escape from effect if we have alredi sow the seed of "cause".The effect will always takes places when the conditions comes.The effect will happen anytime, it may happen in our future life or our present life. While venerable is giving talks,I look at buddha face , i feel like Buddha is smiling at me because he knows that I had get my problem solved by attending today's dharma talk.I realised that from the talk sometimes we cannot compare other people's effect with ours, because each one of us have different "cause" seeds which we had already sowed.Therefore, we have different karma and outcomings in our daily life. Some people may talk bad about other people and some may be blamed.These are results of cause and effect.When the condition comes, that will be the best time the effect takes place.So, in order to create a better effect in the future, we should build more good affinities with others.We should not be complaining or frustrated over some unfair situation, as each of us have a different effect due to out past life or previous causes.

After the dharma talk session and a delightful vegetarian lunch with BLIA friends, i headed directly to uni again.The web tech assignment on asp.net is officially started from today.Me and my teammate discussed over the setting up of the server and coding which need tobe modified over the PHP code.Tough!But need to do it asap and it is going to be dued by week 12.Not much time left!!!Sigh...Need to start studying for advance accouting too!

Nevermind,according to Venerable said in the talk about cause and effect, if we study hard , the effect will be "getting a good job" in the future.Hopefully the condition will be happen to take place at the right time which is my exam question can be solved easily..hehehe...^*-*^winks winks..will blog again!!!

2005-05-13T15:07:00.000+10:00

Me during Australia Day!

Felly ..miss u a lot!

2005-05-13T00:07:00.000+10:00

Let see...that has been ages again that I stop blogging too.

Recently, I m as busy as a bee.Today, client finally signed off on our IE functional spec of the IE project.Yipee, something which I am glad to tell.Today , even have my web tech assignment interview with my tutor.She is very fussy with every single requirement on the project specification.Those minor errors she picked on them.TOUGH!Can u all even imagine that?ONE hour of interview!!!So tiring,i even woke up in 5:30 am morning to study the code for this interview.Now...i think i finally have time to update my blog Alethea and Wen ping start complaining me for not updating my blog.They r really crazy bloggers!!!!hahah...sorry friend...Sorry, recently too busy mah!i know u all care about me.thanks for being caring,:D

Everyday, coping with assignments and loads of assignments.Finally, one more to go, then will have exam alredi, exams is around the corner,mine start on the first day of exam, scary..week 14 first day ,6th june,but this time i will finish early at 15th june.Then, will start planning to go Sydney to visit family friend.

Last Saturday , was indeed a fun day yet sad too. Me, voon yee, mariana, felly and her brother had great fun , we actually had a farewell party for felly because she was going back for good to help her mom in expanding her family business.Sob..Sob...Know this sweet gal only recently in temple, we just click with each other and can talk non stop with each other just like old friends.I dunno why?I think maybe we were good friends b4 in previous life too, cox we have endless topics to chat, to laugh about.We share vcds,stories,dharma talk in vcd,songs together.We found so many common hobbies together and start to hang out together .But sad news, she told me she has to go back to help her mom, that is such a dissapointment to me. One more friend leaving, it teaches me a lesson, always treasure your friends around u .It is so hard to find a friend who can share so many same interest with you, and she have to leave me now.SOB...Nowadays, I really realise that wat is the real meaning of "impermance" which is mentioned by venerable in the dharma talk.It is always so easy to tell , but sometimes when it happens on us in real life, it will be hard to face it!Felly had told me that she is unsure to come back but only for holiday.but, one thing for sure, our friendship will blossom and last forever!We did enjoyed a day withher ,cooking and have fun in her kitchen.haha...we play cards,play games, drawing baby powder on each other face.hahah..so fun , i really treasure those moments!Thanks for everything!I can always remember that monday night when i was so stressed with my assignments , you bring me your homecook dinner.I am so touched!Coz, you are like my angel and sister who actually gives me hope when i feel so helpless and despair nowadays with assignments and life, you are my good listener.I feel so great to have you as my friend.Someone who cares for me a lot !I miss those feeling when i feel so tired and helpless when i come back from uni , such as my mom who actually wait for me to come back for dinner.Those good old days...and u bring me a bit of those feeling when i was so tired that monday night and bring me your delicious dessert soup and homecook yong to fu .

The next morning, we stayed at felly house and send her to airport.I felt so heart broken when i see her leaving us.But deep in my heart , i know she is coming back very soon.:D. Although had only 3 hours of sleep, but we have fun all of us, definitely throw a welcome party when u r back.

Nowadays, i feel so down , as if everything not going smoothly for me. Friendship problem and assignments...My head go spinning some times.

I have been missing home more than ever.miss papa, mama, kok hoong and kok jiean.My cousin sister "shu chin" finally got married, so happy for her.I wish i could be back for the wedding, i can feel the celebration atmosphere here even when i rang them up a few times.Long.....to be home in malaysia.

These days, i just feel weird.Feeling of lonely, homeless, helpless, despair, down...etc

I dun feel like it b4, wat happen to me?I feel as if no one cares.i hate myself being like this, but that is the true feeling i have nowadays.i feel a bit of depress.i think i miss my family too much, i wan to go back malaysia for holiday.so sad...but now feeling better pouring everything out.

will blog again...to be continue

The last sunny day in Autumn?

2005-04-13T22:57:00.000+10:00

Today the weather is warm and hot like malaysia, which is 29 C.The bright sunny day indeed cheer me up for the whole day cox i have been having headache over the essay on advanced accounting, which is 3000 words.Yet, I found out from a friend that it is sad that today maybe the last sunny day in melbourne in Autumn . Hopefully the news which i got is not real.She said that the following days after today will be follow by rainy days, cool and windy days which are the symptoms of the arrival of winter season ..

Pondering on how to start the essay is hard, the due date is next week.However, i had did my research on the topic alredi. Somehow, it is just hard to start writing.Sigh...

I had a fun swing class today with Angelin ,liza , jackie and voon yee.We learn our 1920s Charleston step and it looks so funky with the twisting leg step. But dancing and swinGing in Charleston is very cool, we found ourselves improving everyweek after 6 lessons of swing class.

Finally finish the Auditing presentation , and it is time to start studying Audting test and work on advance accounting . But b4 setting the study wheels in motion, i have to stock up myself with my favourite fruits.I know i have always start munching food especially whenever i m stress, so on this lovely day manage to head to carnegie to load in some fresh fruit...HEEE...cox munching on fruits will not get someone to gain weight.

Yummy, I finally get those apples, pears, plums, peaches and grapes .:P.

Will blog again..WINKS^*-*^WINKS

Uni life is back again!

2005-04-10T23:11:00.000+10:00

UNI life is back again after the Easter break...hee...that had been ages i haven't been blogging. First of all. Sorry, i will like to apologize to all my readers here who have been wondering what has happen to me recently.

It has been more than a month already uni has started, I have been bombarded with tonnes of assignments .Even the one week Easter holiday is not a holiday to me. Everyday need to go to uni to do assignment research and attend group discussion. I realise that my life pace nowadays have been so fast. One day 24 hours is not enough for me, i have to burn the midnight oil almost everyday.

The workloads i have on hands for this semester are pretty heavy because i am taking four KILLER subjects for the final year course. Two accounting subjects and two computing subjects. hee..:D
Tedious work but challenging!

So, i promise mummy and daddy and of course myself to study hard, play hard and PRAY HARD!!!

I join the Monash Dancesport Club in Clayton campus and take up Swing dancing class on Wednesday with a bunch of close friends. It is so fun , and i am really looking forward for each Wednesday to chill out with them and enjoy the fun of swing dancing.Those steps in the dancing are cool, and me myself find it easily to blend in the music whenever my instructor turn on the swing music track.hahah....Swing ...swing ..swing , my stress with the assignments will always just gone like the wind with just a swing dance. :P

As usual, I go to the foguang art gallery every Saturday to attend the chanting session and to join the youth club activities. I had pray hard to Buddha to purify my mind and let me concentrate on my studies each week. Once in a while, whenever they have activities or ceremony, i will volunteer for their activities, and get to know more people there because i found the people there are all so friendly and cheerful. The feeling of home is always there when i go to temple. We sing Buddhism songs and have discussion group almost every week. These practices always reminds me feeling home whenever i go to Cempaka Buddhist temple with mummy and daddy. I still remember the old days when i learn to play guitar and being the children Sunday dharma school activities teacher during my summer break. Those days were fun too, singing and playing together with the kids and even have the sutra chanting session in the crispy Sunday morning. Nowadays, the youth club activities which i join has almost the same activities, morning chanting session, singing, and even discussion group. Things has been doing fine for me until something bad happen to me last Sunday...

Me and my housemate just got back from dinner, we realised that our house had been broke in by thieves. Our house was in a mess, and we were very shocked and scared! My laptop was been stolen so did my housemate's laptop, digi camera and clothes. It was pretty bad! But we managed to slowly overcome the fear when time goes by! That is BAD LUCK! But most important thing, is that it really do teach me a lesson, to be more aware! I think people only learn to be wiser when something happen. What to do?!!!SIGH

This year is going to be VERYYYYY challenging for me, I am doing IE project which is a whole year real industry project. My team mate and me (5 of us) are all gals and we are assigned to a client which they run business for organising event for children. We are suppose to maintain their website and to help them set up good administrator website for them to use. The project is challenging because all of us are required to learn up new programming language. I am assigned the role of client liaison officer, so will be responsible to get all requirements from the client and to make sure my teamates are all updated with the information provided by client.

The project is run so formally every time we have our meeting with the client. Need to wear formally, need to book a car park, book meeting room etc. Anyway, i am happy to work in the team with all my good friends: Hui fen, Liza, Alethea and Lauren. That is what i call it: GALS POWER!!! We even hangout together sometime after IE meeting , swimming, swing dancing, dining out together, that is fun! I feel so lucky cox without their company uni studying life will be dull and dry!

ok, i think i will stop scribbling here. will blog again . ^*--*^

GONG XI FA CHAI!Happy Chinese New Year!!!

2005-02-15T00:10:00.001+11:00

Day 1...

Early morning, went to attend lecture and tutorial.We ended class at 2.oopm and was panicked coz the group project due date seems to be nearer. however,all of us do not feel like doing anything on the new year day itself,so all of us went down to the city to have lunch together.We ordered roast duck, char siew, kai lan and claypot tofu at the hongkong A1 restaurant.I think my stomach was very much pampered by me on that day, as I had so much food...I even can eat at the second round at lisa's housemate birthday party later after lunch. I fill my stomach with more good Food, Thai food such as green curry, vege curry and cakes.Basically, the 1st day of new year ,everyone is expected to have a great appetite for FOOD!!! I guess this explains evrything..hee...I even get to buy "nian gao" and "egg roll" from the asian grocery store which are my favourite snacks on chinese new year.

Day 2...

I went to visit my auntie in Boxhill, haven't been seeing her for a while .The visit was a great one,get to see her chubby and cute son,James.To my surprise,2 years old James had grown to be more talkative.Auntie Kim cooked the one of my favourite dish"wan tan mee "for my lunch .So yummy,:P
Ufortunately, i cannot stayed too long at her place, need to rush back uni to continue coding...sigh.but still glad to ctach up with her and get my first angpao from her .Lisa came over to my house at nite and bumped over my place and keep me accompany. FRANKLY SPEAKING,Thanks to her, coz the new year wil not be great if is without her company . The atmosphere is merrier in the house with friends.
Day 3...

Coding ..Coding again..Sigh IT has been 3 days alredi for the new year of which I have to work on the project, no holidays for me, papa and mama and my brothers are having fun in Penang. They called me while I was busy coding in the lab.Make me feel so jealous...
but I think i am glad too on the other hand as I think i did learn somethign worthwhile."the knowledge of coding using VB.net"..kekekke....

WINKS^*-*^WINKS

Reunion dinner

2005-02-10T00:23:00.000+11:00

It has been a week that I haven't been blogging. I think should start blogging again...

THE LAST DAY of CHINESE LUNAR CALENDER...

I had been sitting in front of the PC in the university lab from 10:00am to 4:00pm.Straining my eyes on the lines of codes, and learning the different coding methods of VB.net ...Tiring...but I was still looking forward for the reunion dinner in the temple.

The reunion dinner was a lovely one Of which i had in Yarraville temple. I went to that temple at 6:30pm with Yen Kuan, Zoe and Mary.We had this vegetarian steamboat with Reverands and others Buddhist Youth club friends. We enjoyed the wonderful dinner and said our prayer at 10:00 pm until 11:00pm.

As I was saying the new year prayer and sutra chanting, I realised that I had went through another worthy and valuable year which was blessed by Lord Buddha. I wish that in the coming new year there is more peace in the world, people can live in harmonious way where there are less natural disasters and all my family and friends are blessed by Buddha.

I reached home at 12:00am in the morning and I burnt the incense Reverands had given to me .I said my new year resolution and wishes to Buddha before I went to bed. The reunion dinner night was so special to me this year as I spend it with my freinds in Melbourne . I don't feel lonely as I feel so closely connected to Buddha and the feeling was just the same as back home when I followed mummy to the temple each year on new year. I felt as if my heart was lighten up by the chinese lattern hanging in the temple, I felt so fresh and anew and I am ready to face a new year ahead of me.I want to start anew and to be ready to take the challenge of th eyear 2005.I'm gonna study hard , and finish off my final year in uni.One more thing which I have promise to myself is to learn more about buddhism which I think will help me to cultivate my mind, body and souls.I will actively get myself involve and volunteer in the Budddhist Youth Club.

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!!winks^*-*^winks

An efficient day!!!

2005-02-04T02:27:00.000+11:00

Early morning, I woke up with the alarm clock ringing at 6am.That is SUPER -DUPER early. I had to prepared to go for a new job observation at Burnley at 8am.I was brought by my friend, Soumya and her freinds to Brandon park Shopping centre

I was excited, Soumya went through the company structure to me and explained the Amercian Express product description to me. I had saw the way the team pitch the customer and their marketing skills they had demonstrated in front of me.The observation ended, and I was assigned to report back to the office for the second interview. It was an successful interview but....I still need to think twice about it.Considering so many reasons, my final year uni workload, my IE next year, etc...

After the completion of the interview, I came home for lunch and did my Spring Cleaning for the house.After 2 to 3 hours of effort, the spring cleaning turns out to be a succesful one, which gave me the feeling of feeling reallllllllyyyy..looking forward for the CHINESE NEW YEAR!!!Hee....can't wait, I had my plan ready for the new year alredi. This year will be an exciting ones!!!No angpao from mama and papa, and auntie and uncles, but....i havemy FRIENDS here in Melbourne. We gonna head down to Chinatown after the morning lecture and lab on next tuesday.kekeke...:P...

After coming back from libary, still have to face the monitor, and finish off the submission for ITPM . Until now, I am still in front of my pc, yet i m finishing, bit more to go....but i felt as if today i fully utilized my days...kekek...and i m going to finish my reading on the book of "Memoirs of Geisha"...just can't wait to read the endings...Oops..the due date is tomorrow, hmmm...must finish asap...ok, will blog again..Winks^*-*^Winks

Food Glorious Food..Yummy.:P

2005-02-02T21:41:00.000+11:00

OOO...look at the cakes there, I have those sinful cakes but deliciousjust few hours ago at one of the cakeshop in Acland Street in St kilda..I can't sleep .My eyes are so round and big..thanks to all the sugar booster I have taken in.hhaha...that keeps me so awake right now.But these mouth watering cakes are so tempting, i cannot resist those temptation at all!I had wildberry, apricot cheese cakes, chocolate rum cakes, chocolate hazelnut slice..oo, gosh, i m so FULL!!!

Cox Soumya, Alethea, Robin , Aaron and I had been enjoying pizza and pasta in Chapel street. OOO Glorious food, I haven't been having pasta for so long, and once I had it, it is so filling, especially the tortellini. The food tonite which i had are all fattening but one thing which is good is the chilling out time I had spend chatting with these friends.Ppl , the dinner is great and thanks for everything. The nice chats and advices you ppl had gave me are so great!It was drizzingly and was cold just now when we had our lovely dinner together but I felt warmth in my heart with the friendship power!CHEERS!!!

Winks^*-*^Winks

Looking forward for another hangout together ,ok?

Yipee.i got a part time job!

2005-02-02T21:23:00.000+11:00

Guess wat ,ppl?I got a job after going to the interview at Burnley in the morning ...Hee..I got into retail sales again.What do u ppl think of a marketing position in American Express card service..hee, not bad?i hope so .Thanks to Soumya and Alethea.I will a bit bored if I have only one subject to study for the summer..hee..thanks for the job recommendation. Some thing to be looking forward for..a new job, new ppl , i luv to meet ppl.Ppl from different back grounds, and cultural .

My previous job was on retail as well, i get to talk to different ppl.Melbournians are friendly ppl and they are nice. Especially those elderly man and woman.The most satisfiable and motivative moments are the moennts when you got your client to buy the right things he /she is looking for.And the best part is they will praise you on your sales personality and your job efficiency. OOO....i really can't wait for the day of my job on thursday. That will be great!!!So excited!!!

Cycling is fun!

2005-02-01T08:41:00.000+11:00

Finally i handed in my ITPM Cycle 1 assignment. I did not sleep last night , was very tired. i was listening to my collection of MP3 songs of Jay Chow , Sun yan Zhi, Maria Carey which made me alert the whole night. However, it is now finished, I felt so relived and so happy. I start to miss blogging alredi. hahah..Thanks to my dear friend, Trish.

This gal taught me how to put music in my blog and also to put several friends' blog links into my blog page. Trish who is the cute and charming gal I get to know her from Mannix. She is still so cute and helpful to all her friends. Cheers to you! Keep up the gymming and spinning going gal, u r on the rite track. Millions thanks to u, to my special IT html Consultant. Beside this, thanks to my friend, Wen Ping, who inspires me to write my first few blogs. Thanks to u all who welcomes me to the world of blogging, i really enjoy a lot.

Yesterday , I was enjoying my evening with Liza before I start rushing on the crazy ITPM assignment. My good buddy, Liza had just came back from Brunei for a few days, I then went to meet her up to do some catch ups right after my ITPM meeting. She looks happier and cheerful with her new hairstyles. I believed that she had enjoyed her stays back home with her parents. Poor gal, this gal has to come back to Melbourne to continue the summer course after going back to her brother's wedding only for one week. She misses her family a lot just as I do when i once came back to Melbourne after holiday in M'sia.I am sure she will get over it again just as I do slowly. Time helps to heal.

She brought back some snacks for me from Brunei . We snacked on the snacks and the Kacang putih I boiled yesterday. Having our own sweet times, browsing through her brother's wedding album and having our gals talk. The weather was good and sunny, We even went cycling for 2hours around the Malvern East. That has been ages since I haven' t been cycling ever since my bike had been stolen by the thieves. It was like 6 or 7 years ago, I have always enjoy the cooling air which blow on my face whenever I go cycling. I was thrilled and triumphed with the cycling experience I had yesterday. It reminds me some childhood memories about cycling as I always liked to cycle around my neighbourhood area every evening during my primary and high school days.

We have plans nowadays ..kekeke...we truly enjoy ourselves for the ride in the evening. We plans to go cycling every evening which turns out to be a great idea to me .I had always been thinking going for a particular outdoor activities which will make my summer more fun! And the most important thing is I wanna go for workout for a healthier and fit body as the usual way I did back in Malaysia. Moreover, Chinese new year coming .I wanna look nice and fit in my new clothes.

That is me , I have always like sports since young. Mummy had always advised me to stay away from the sunlight here in Melbourne as she was informed by the strong UV sunlight -ray here.But, I cannot live without sports!Now i had foudn something interesting, which i dun think I will get so much exposed to the sunlight such as swimming, jogging etc..I even have thoughts of cycling to St Kilda beach one day or along one of the nice beach in Melbourne. Maybe Frankston beach, that must be a truly indulging moment which i can sit by the beachand try soaking my feet into the cooling sea water and basking myself under the warm sun light , and enjoy the scene of the sunsets.

Winks ^*-*^ Winks.
Looking forward another ride later in the evening.ciaoz...:P

~A lesson of mind & soul purification~

2005-01-30T09:45:00.000+11:00

Early morning , I had been waken up by my alarm clock and I started to prepare to meet up Zoe at the Flinders station. We had been planning the trip to BLIA(Fo Guang Art Gallery)http://www.bliav.org.au/exhibition/galleryindex.html
for long since the day I came back to Melbourne...but we had been delaying our plan since we were both working hard for the assignments for the past 2 weeks.

YIPEE! We finally make it to the holy place just now in the morning although it is raining quite heavily in the morning. It was a cool and crispy morning where we should be in our dreamland but both of us were dripping wet when we reached the temple. We started with the sutra reciting in the morning at 10.30 am and followed by Reverend’s Dharma talk.

Reverend 's talk had been an exciting and humorous one .She had made the talk liveable and not boring. She had make me feel as if this is the place where we the overseas student the "SECOND HOME". I really felt like home when i first stepped into the fo guang yuan which was 1 1/2 year ago with my Monash Buddhist Society Friends. That is how i came to know about this holy place. However, I was always busy with my uni assignments and exam and i don't have the chance to visit for the second times. My friends who were my company to go to that places had most of them went back to their country for good . I was always hoping to make a second visit to that place again and I finally got a company to go with me this morning. I was thrilled with joy this morning. becox i was overwhelmed by joy and happiness which was showered by light of the power of Buddhism. It was a lesson which i will said that it purify your mind and soul. I feel very much like home and the Cempaka Buddhist Lodge which I used to visit quite frequently with my families since young. Lord buddha, I can feel the closely-knit bond of relationship with you, especially in Melbourne which is far away from home.

After the talk , we had vegetarian lunch together and I talked to the chairman of the Youth Club of BLIA. Zoe and me filled up the form to become one of them without hesitation. In BLIA, it is like a big family and most of the people who went there every Saturday are mostly university students. The Youth volunteer club had been categorised to publishing, art decorating, translating, sutra reciting, cooking, etc.The chairman had suggested me to join the translation group and they will provide training for us . Translator’s job is to translate Reverend’s dharma talk from mandarin to English. I was excited with the chairman's suggestion on the job and willing to give it a try . It must be a tough job but i wish to try translating and it will be much fun . I think it will definitely help hone up my oratorical skills and it can further increase my English vocabulary power too. Moreover, I am extremely interested in their activities too such as outings, bbq, workshops, etc.I believe that it should be a fun year for me in 2005.I want to get to know more about Buddhism and to join their activities just as the same old way I did back home in M'sia.I was once a volunteer teacher in the dharma school activities . We sing songs which praise Lord Buddha, we plays games and meditate which will help us to cultivate our mind and soul . I believe it will be a another new journey here for me here to continue my learning pathway in Buddhism with the BLIA Youth Club.

After the visit to the temple, we had a walk to Victoria Market and the Asian Grocery. I did some grocery shopping and headed home . Zoe and me had promised each other to fork out our time to go to Fo Guang Shan each Saturday and made gave our soul and mind a purification and an escape from all the stressful assignments.

Winks^*--*^Winks.
Amitabha!

2005-01-28T19:28:00.000+11:00

cutie bear

2002(A great year)

2005-01-28T03:46:00.000+11:00

Flash back to 2002...

REMEMBERING the days when I first arrived in Melbourne really seems like yesterday, time flies. It was a crispy and cold July morning; the Monash Airport transport picked me up from the airport and send me to Mannix College, the residential college of Monash uni. The weather was so freaking cold, making me so homesick on the day itself i reached Mannix . That is the first winter i had spend in Oz. NEW country, NEW ppl, NEW life, totally a NEW place for me, so new and i am so BLUR with the environment. I arrived one week in advance before the uni starts. I wanna get myself settled with my life and get myself familiarise with the uni and places. I had know no one here in Melbourne but I told myself I can easily adapt myself to the environment, becoz I went thru the 4 months working in the Ernst and Young tax consultant company and the Paul Chuah Auditing firm as trainees. I had been trained up to be an independent person (I guessed at that time). Working life during the pass 4 months before I came to Melbourne was tiring and tedious. I was working like hell as internship trainee before i came to Melbourne. I was supposed to go to Perth with my bunch of friends in Metropolitan College. BUT.... INSTEAD of going to Perth I had choose to come to Melbourne to Monash for the double degree. If I had never went to work in Ernst and young tax consultant during my college summer holiday and talked to the seniors and the manager there, I would not have ended up here in Melbourne. I told myself...hahah.. Life is just so funny, cox i had realised that I dun wan a single degree in accounting and after so many talks and chats with the manager. He advised me to take double degree, the computing and the accounting, which really makes my life a big change. That is the main reason i m here to pursue a double degree certificate.

BACK to the uni life... Uni life started, Mannix is such a conducive & ideal place to study for international student. Becox they provides so much facilities, I will not even have to worry about my food , bills, laundry , library etc. I had spend a semester in Mannix which gave me lots of unforgettable memories. I get to know different ppl from different countries, hong kong, Singapore, Indonesia, China, Korea, Philippines, Japan etc. We all live under the roof of Mannix like brothers and sisters. BUT staying in Mannix really widen up my eyes, it gets me to experience the Aussie life, and the traditional academic life in the residential college. Attending functions, such as faculty dinners which must be attended every Wednesday with different Monash faculty lecturers and tutors . These kinda of formal dinners even requires student to wear academic gown. This formal function really surprised me becoz they are so similar with the formal dinner in HARRY POTTER movies. Except our table is in round tables and their in long rectangular dining table. The atmosphere is almost the same, cox we have to wait for the Father to do the talking, appetizer soups and bread and wines, main course, desserts...etc, The Aussie had taught me their ways of table manner using their crockeries. Indeed, it is a truly great experience for me . I have sweetooth since I was young, cakes and desserts are always my favourites. The Aussie is famous with desserts. I had never miss the dessert after every meals. :D...yummy, the cakes especially the carrot cakes with the rich cheese toppings ,pavlova, cheese cake, ice cream with rich caramel sauce are always so mouth-watering and makes me crave for more. Every meal we have in Mannix is served in big portions too. The main course served were always in Italian pasta, creamy carbonara, red meats, lasagne, fish and chips, etc.. all glorious goods. OF COURSE, I gave in to all the temptations ! The food there so delicious and appetizing , and so new to me some of them especially the creamy carbonara pasta. They are all served in buffet style so if I crave for more food ,i can take more. .hee.... i dun care how fattening the food is, I dun care about my normal diet as well, i just feel free to eat as much as a I like it. REFILL and refill. Dun never even care much of healthy fresh vege at the salad bar Coz...it was cold during winter too, so eating more will keep ones feel warmer but made me ended up putting up to 8 kg within one month.

IN THE END, I cannot fit it those old jeans anymore. I have to do shopping, buy new jeans and buy some looser outfits. I have become a fatter person, but I did not really care much about my weight at the time until I came back to Malaysia in the end of year 2002.Mummy, and daddy and my brothers cannot even recognise me...that is so heartbreaking. The feeling was bad, yet i did realise that was payback time because I had consumed too much sinful food in Melbourne! I dun even have the confidence to step out of my house once i was back in m'sia. Then ,i decided to go on intensive workout.. Jogging, swimming, proper diet which makes me in the end lose the 8 kg within 3 months. It has been weird, cox I remembered I joined the aerobics for half a year and doing a lot of Tae-box, still does not help to lose weight, I think it is a sudden change of environment that causes a sudden gain in weight.. I guess...hee.. not my fault on craving for foods.:D

BACK in Mannix, beside just studying , Mannix is a place to have fun when u r too stress out! ALL WORKS AND NO PLAYS MAKE JILL A DULL GAL. Seeing the Aussie enjoying their beers and chat in the common room has not been a habit to us the international student all the while, but sometimes we will join them chill out after being bombarded with test and assignments. Once in a while, we do join them for some dancing or having 1 or 2 beers on Thursday nite .The reasons here which tells me most of the Aussie cannot mingled with the international student is because they play too hard. .hahah. They have the concept in minds to play and drink until they puke. Function and programme in the common room, is like a piece of sweet chocolate that spice up our dull study life such as Cowboys and Indian nite..which i remembers all of us are busy with finding the scarf to dress up like cowgal and find feathers to put on the head to become red Indians. so much funs, even dressing up for the multicultural nite .

Gone were the days....cox my campus is in Caulfield and living in Clayton campus residential college have to catch the shuttle bus 1 hour everyday earlier before the actual class start is a torture. The worst part is when there was time to rush to hand in assignment, and was late for the shuttle bus .The worst moments that happen to me was to find out the bus was full. i had to take a train and then change a bus to uni which I knows was a big torture to me at that critical time! so no choice, I have to find a place near my uni campus, hee....have to pack luggage and say farewell to my lovely friends in Mannix, To the DEAN, to Father, to the friendly librarian, to the sweet canteen aunties...hhahah.. that was my story 2002 in Melbourne!

Flash Back ...2004...2003...2002

2005-01-27T22:44:00.000+11:00

I was actually thinking hard on how to start writing a proper blog.Then this afternoon, was chatting with one of my friend, Wen Ping, after telling him some of the uni life experience here in Aussie.There goes a sudden flow of inspiration rush thru my brains when I was doing my ITPM assignment.I decided to write some memories through out this three years since day i arrived Melbourne.looking back just now, i realise i have learnt a lot and had slowly grown to be independent after these years .I wonder if i am not here in melbourne, will i learn this precious lesson from these 3 years in a foreign country?I had always been thinking home a lot, cox i m a homely person. Even though I am here for three years, i still miss home a lot.I had been asking myself repeatedly do i regret to decide to come here to futher my studies?But today, it seems like a flashing back to the past 3 year has given my an exact answer..." m not regret for the decision i had made to study here"cox :

Stories goes like this...

2005-01-27T16:35:00.000+11:00

one of my favourite pic

Burn the midnite oil

2005-01-23T02:10:00.000+11:00

This is going to be my first blog here..heee..dunno wat to write here, no much time for me to write but i will tell wat i m doing rite now late at 2.15 am ..hahah, burning the midnite oil to study for the stupid unit test!hahah...i have still have so much to read.The ITPM theories are killing me.I had been sitting in front the books for hours for the whole day. Sigh..thiking about my friends who ar estill enjoying their holidays back m'sia,and i m stuck here studyign for the stupid test, really a TORTURE !!!

No choice, that is wat i choose to study , i have to face it!Another one year left, i will be able to get my ass of this uni life!!!IF I m not going to graduate this year , of course i willnot give a damn on this summer course, at this time of today, i may stilL be enjoying my time in m'sia.Probably shopping in 1Utama or sitting in one of the mamak stall doing catch up with friends.hhahhaha...:D

Life is always like that!!!what to do???!!!

~*Life is impermanent*~