Wednesday, December 02, 2009
it has been a loooooooonnnnnnggggggg time since last updated... i'm so sorry for not updating since i left for uni... i know i know... i could have taken the initiative to update since it's such a simple thing to do... i must admit though, i'm a lazy ass... so updating my blog isn't exactly on the top of my daily to-do list... since very little or almost no one reads my blog, i don't really bother about it... anyways, first semester of uni is over... sem break now...! yay...! my take on it...? reasonably okay... life there is pretty managable... sure, it ain't fancy like some high class foreign uni with almost any facility you want... sure, it doesn't have a swimming pool or a high-tech computer lab... but the very least, i'm pay way, way, way, way lesser for my course... it's a local uni i'm going to... i think it pretty much self-explanatory... met some great and wonderful people there... though i must mention this... it's pretty much my downside... main language spoken by the chinese there is mandarin... and most of you know by now, mandarin ain't exactly a language i'm good at... i can speak a little, just sufficient to get the meaning across... not a major problem... there is however, a problem... and i doubt this problem can be solved... having rotten people as your groupmate... gosh, i can literally strangle them... but that has already passed... on the brightside of that though, it has made me a little wiser and mature... food-wise, i have to say, if you can't stand food that is spicy, oily and mostly REPETITIVE food, you are going to have a problem... the key to surviving below average cafeteria food; VARIETY... sure, some days you can just skip a meal (or two), but you can't survive on instant noodles, biscuits and bread for an entire month... you would almost literally go insane... for me, variety is the way to go... for example, i have rice for lunch and maybe noodles or roti canai for dinner... for my so called 'pantry', i have milo, cappuccino, cadbury hot choco, horlicks AND chinese tea... i also have at least THREE different types of instant noodles... sounds a lot, but it helps me get through the really crappy times... i go for lectures using 'leg power'... first month (if i'm not mistaken) i would walk to my lecture halls and classes... takes about 15 minutes if i speed up my pace, 20 - 25 if i do it casually... but now, i still rely on 'leg power' to get to lectures on time; a bicycle...! yea, it's much faster than walking... though, kinda sucks when it rains... laundry and house keeping is not a very burdening task... sure, it's always nice to have someone to do those things for you, but it ain't always the case... my advise, don't push back on laundry... it can kill you, expecially if your handwashing your laundry... do laundry everyday or if your lazy, three days once... house keeping is totally up to you... if you think you can stand living, eating, sleeping and studying in a garbage bin, by all means go ahead... study wise, it isn't very difficult if you constantly study, finish and up all your assignments on time... and of course, GO FOR LECTURES... have a question...? don't be afraid to ask your lecturer... worst case is he/she will ask you to find out the answer yourself... but do not fret; when in doubt, GOOGLE... no kidding... google will be your best friend when doing assignments... my final advise, as a human, we all have our downsides... so please leave them behind and just be nice to others because you will be sharing your life with others in uni... it's a very important transition period... from teenagers to adults... of course, old habits die hard, but there is no harm in trying to burn them alive right...? do onto others what you want others to do onto you... that's something i believe in... it's not easy sharing your life with others as it is difficult for them to fully accept you no matter how close you may be with them... they say, "you don't trully know a person until you have lived with him/her"... why do you think the divorce rate never drops...? it's as simple as that... ah, yes... before i forget... do remember to treat yourself once in a while... it really helps when times get really rough especially if you get homesick easily... a cold can of coke on a really hot day or maybe just better food can really do miracles... that's all from me for now... i don't know whether i'll be updating often during my sem break... kinda lazy now... haha...
