Merry chirstmas

it have been a long time since i uopdated my blog since i back in singapore...

laptop down, if laptop repaired, modem down....


Sian... but there have beeen much things happening in this 3 week...

gan wei went off to taiwan, guangrong birthday, chirstmas at the east coast park, see a new target for me to chase... hope this time will be successful...


haven't been working.... now really broken... pocket is totally see thorought type.


later still have to countdown christmas and everything...



Hope this christmas will be a better christmas with the marist brothers....

What a twelve week attachment

As i am typing this post, it is the end of the twelve weeks attachment in sydney



While typing this post, i am feeling emotional

every word i type, i feel like crying

Cause today, i recall all the time i had in sydney in lab


Going out to places never seen before, i still remember the face all 5 of us had when we look at the opera house and the sydney harbour bridge, take lot of photo, the blue mountain and the animal in featherville to touch the kangaroo and koala bear.

Birthdays!, Grace and eleanor, catherine, my lab shane...All the fun time, sitting together, watching free entertainment.
(my eye is full of water now... no tear yet....)

Stay in the lab late to complete experiment, cycling to school, met nice people like adrain who let me his bike for 2 month, the most best part! HAPPY HOur in both the school uni bar and lab. Party such as end of school party, oktoberfest...

Going to places alone to beach, the weathers, the scenery, this is one thing that money REALLY cannot buy, the "small" one day adventerous, walking around sydney such as 7 bridge walk, walk from circular quey to chatwood, the cogee to bondi walk.





Got good things, of course got bad things...

like my family hurry me to send my I.C photo back to singapore,

Laptop down and no one can help me, even the lab most I.T skilled scientist cannot do much




This is one of the hardest post i am going to write, as i am holding my tears and typing it and to know my time here is really up, it really make me sad as i really enjoy my time here... Too bad i cannot go to the christmas party the lab is hosting next week.



THESE THREE MONTH IS REALLY AN EMOTIONAL RIDE FOR ME

it really like a dream

Soon i will wake up in Singapore, having my $400 dollar pay for the next 3 year due to attachment and army.

I hope i don't wake up at all..I REALLY DON'T WANT TO WAKE UP YET!



But all dream cannot last forever... this is REALITY.

Time fly... Tryin to enjoy every moment here

Wa... this week is the 11th week already...
how time fly...

i was still thinking about the first week i came here


i was a greenhorn then...


Though a bowl of laska will be 4 dollar AUS.... thought that bus ride here is cheap, All the wishful thinking....


through the 11 week, i meet lot of different peoples, know some friends here...

in the lab, make some good discovery, know more to be independent, change in learning attitude... but i forget all my pharmaco knowledge...(SHIT!.. i still need it in mental hosptial ...F***)

At the end of the whole attachment, i think it will be good to write a report of the for them about my progress in this lab.


Today, the main supervisor was asking me why am i writing a report? Is it for school?

i was trying to say the report for he to see

He say;" just draw a table, i can understand"



i was dumbfolded cause i thought i need to write a report, but if like that, i just draw the table out in 10 minutes

he see it... and ask me" why are u letting me see the result?"

i say" i am leaving on dec 2"

He was saying" f***, you will not be able to get drunk on the lab christmas party on dec7, F***"



hearing that, it really make me feel harder to leave this lab i am in now. there are just many good people here. Although they look fierce, but they are good hearted. Man, i WILL miss the time here...


This three month had been a good memories for me.... (just a bit of trouble for the family, the army and small bicycle accident here, just a few cuts on the feet, hand, not on the face like the last time)


After typing, i am going to update my logbook which i need the sub supervisor to sign as the main supervisor went down to drink beer already... so... better update now. haha


P.S Tmr shopping spree.... nouget, pant, shirt... need to write a shopping list... WA... money leaving my pocket... heart ache, cause i am a cheapskate....

tuesday... shit, i miss both singapore and sydney

today is tuesday.... a.k.a the eve of the day where my computer spolit

just thinking that my computer is spolit for about a week pissed me off....

Now, i have to stay in lab late to type the report... very sad... very irritating


The past weekend went to the mountain that is blue, the blue mountain,... we took an tour call actiivty tour there and i will updated u more about the trip in my next post when i can get the usb cable to link this computer to the camera. i just cannot find that cable.

i also went to manly beach and the north sydney... it was a long trip and got sun brun by walking by the beach... that is crazy. I went to palm beach, it was the nice beach, i dare to say it is the east coast of sydney, not in term of the dirt the sea have, but the length. i need 1 hour -2 hours to walk one end to another... it was beautiful place to be.... i will also update it in the next post...


i have trouble typing the report that i need to "hand up" as it was an optional thingy, but i want to try to type a report of the finding that i had in the lab. u know typing a report is the boring thing u can do... so i go to youtube and i want to introduce 3 video for the people who looking in the post.

The first one - introduction of the song "through the fire and flame"


The second one - the song "through the fire and flame" in guiter hero 3... man, this rock harder than rock. guiter hero is a guiter game whereby u have to hit the correct bottom and play it to get point.


and the last one - singaporean, u may not know, but there is a election in australia soon and the party here both liberal and labour,( not like signapore PAP and PAP only ) are fighting for the people vote and there is a bunch of joker make a video for the song, some term for u to know john howard - current prime minster of australia, kevin rudd - soon to be prime minister - peter car-stay-low - an idi0t who is john howard right hand man...


that is the fun part, but down in my heart. i am feeling like the title of the post.

i miss the food in singapore, but i start to miss the good time i had in sydney ( not some of the hip-up i had in singapore). i started feeling this cause today the lab meeting, they are discussing the decamber christmas party that i will not be in able to go, even though it is in DEC 7, whereby i will be goen by dec 2. After the meeting, i got a email from the my soon to be supervisor daniel from the NHG pharmary about the detail in the next attachment on dec 3.

Out of sudden, i was just thinking about the time here, it was good, sweet, visitng lot of places but not enough, regret on some days that i did not go out at all... F***, now i going back and start my day where my monthly pay to be 400 onward.... from attachment, to army for the next 2 years.... i do hope i can come back to study and work in australia to lead my cheapskate life here as what i did in the past 3 month.

Talking about cheapskate.... i just make a song from the tune of delta Goodrem, in this life

" i am saving, i am scrapping, so to save every penny with me
i share my bedroom, with a stranger, so to save even more money
i ride to school, with my friend bike, so to save on transportation fee

this is me...... ME.... me....
This is me... mE..... ME...

(chorus)
This is me.... save money....
i will tell u every way u know to save money in syd...ney
just buy only home brand goods, just eat only home cooked food, one bike is all i need and i............

If u shopping, go to paddy, to buy sovouior for your friends
if u hungry, so is your friend, go buy pizza and share it with them
Call me cheapskate, call me cheap po, but it don't really bother me....

this is me...... ME.... me....
This is me... mE..... ME...

(chorus)
This is me.... save money....
i will show u every way to save eevry penny in syd...ney
try not to give any tips, try to get free food and drink, one meal is all i need and i............

wa LAu eh... computer spoilt...

i was writing regarding to the last post i posted up

The laptop is not going any better today.

the past 2 days i have been operating on my macbook pro and removing the memories of the computer out... yes, i found the screwdriver and i just SCREWED HIM up...

i was too foolish in my thinking, did not much research and acted recklessly. yesterday i operate, i then realized the hard disk used in the macbook pro is a SATA hard disk, the hard disk case i have is IDE one.

so i went online to find the cheapest 2.5 SATA casing, on ebay, 2.99 for the case and 10 dollar postage. i was complaining too expensive, so i try my luck in the neigbhourhood to see the computer store sell this type of casing or not.

They sell... but u guess the price

10 dollar?

WRONG!


a bit more 15 dollar?

WRONG!


it was 27.50 for the cheapest i found

27.50 for a case? u daylight robbery or not?



then i realized they did not rob that much to the other 2 shop i ask later, 30 dollar and 39 dollar....


WA... TA MA DE... i can go online and buy 2 of these cases and cheaper then buying in sydney kingford... bloody hell...


i come here sell SATA case, enough to make me rich already... these blood sucker.


with such price, i was SERIOUSLY in doubt...


so the guy offer a 10 dollar screening of my hard disk, so he screened and tell em my hard disk is protected, need mac software to unlock


now using other people computer, typing my post...


Fuck la, now have to learn a new command call fsck in the reboot of the laptop

Wa is fsck? U was to fuck then fuck, now fsck? even the word check underline the word fsck red.


Since i use other people computer, i just post some photo up first






Martin and catherine birthday.







What a sigh....

i cannot imagine how unluckly i am this week

Sorry, mate...it have been a month since i updated my blog

been busy with experiment , which only 30% of the time it work and the 70% was just a waste of time.

Now, today, at 1pm i got the worst thing happen to me.

MY LAPTOP SPOLIT!

Wa lau. laptop, u want to spolit also spolit in singapore ma. Y spolit here?

laptop laptop, u know in sydney, the technology is not very advance and u know to repair u here very expensive or not?
Wa COW!

Y? tell me Y? spolit at this time and this place and at this hour when i want to type my report about my discovery of glycine betaine in haloarchaea species. now i cannot type and cannot do anything! FUC****.

My experiment spolit, never mind, can redo,
i cannot wake up in the morning,never mind, i return home late
Now, laptop spolit! Fuc*, laptop, u want me to have a operation on you like your cousin iPOD video 60GB?

U jealous of your cousin right? he got operation u don't have. Want me to operate on you right?

U know what? i will, once i have a screwdriver ( the very very small one), u will be SCREWED!


I will SCREWED U UP! u hear that, laptop? no, i should say, Mr Macbook Pro 1.83GHz? who really make a lot of noise from the fan.


i want to update the photo, i cannot now, cause my laptop spolit and the computer here is good enough for me to type. i cannot even do a new video based on my photo. WTF


Soon, Mr MACbook Pro. u will know it very soon. i will erase u and make a history. i will reformatted you till your WHOLE MEMORIES is gone. U recently blackmailing by having some of my precious photos with u... i know... i going to SCREW U UP and take my memories out of your brain. by then, i can do anything with u. ANYTHING!!!!1

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHA (evil smile) HAHA (thunder strike)

Soon my new macbook frankestrain going to resurrect! YOU will listen to me, obey my command and do anything i ask u to do.... HAHAHA HAHAHA (shit, i am going mad about my spolit laptop)



i stop the nonsense now, i will update my blog ASAP after i repair my laptop myself... www.ifixit.com here i come!

Apologise.... experiments, Experiment and blogger problem

it have been two week since i last blogged. i apologised as i finally understand what kelvin mean of " lazy". i am getting lazier everyday, even though i cycle to school now, i am still late for "work"

The blogger don't allow me to upload all the photo i have taken in the pass two week. Shit, Faeces, metabolic waste product. the weekends are getting boring as we went to most of the places in sydney except the blue mountain and huntervalley. i not going to city as it becoming like orchard road to us... everyday the same thing, same street performer, same joke, i getting tired of the same thing.

Now i finally can go out with other singaporean friends i met in sydney and going home with a mate everyday ( sorry, it is a guy and i am not GAY, i do hope i can walk back or cycle back home with a people of another gender)

and that brett give me 3 projects to do! how to cope? finally i completed one but there is no result and i going to ask him what to do about it. one is still on going and another cannot start cause cannot find the stocks(haha)

k. i will try to upload photo asap or else and i think it is time for me to email the lecturer how we are in sydney. i need to rush for the happy hour now at 5pm (3pm singapore... man i getting drunk damn early!)

3rd weekend, EAT!

Sunday, We went to the fish market to eat.

Meet in the city, chinatown at 10am. But there is a marathon in the city on that day. the bus service went topsy- tupvy, go up, down, left right in the rural area. make me late by reaching there at 10.30am

We walk for 15 minutes, and we reach the Fish market





The monorail went past over me. look nice.






You all can see the board. WATERFRONT A.k.A FISH MARKET, with 4 bird on the top






At the fish market, there are LOT of Birds flying around, try to get the food from human. And they behave like thief, target on ladies and aunty. We took 20 minutes to look for sits and we enter the fish market.









Look at all the seafood available!









Look at what we ordered!









Wilson have a hard time swallowing. see his face!





We got so much food, i have to take away some food. We all go back, 9th month pregnant. i even order 18 oyster! but the oyster is cheap, one oyster only 1.30 dollar, not more than 2 sing dollar! It was seriously a delight to eat.

We also eat sashimi, 60 dollar worth, two pack of fish meat, got salmon, tuna... wa.... i eat until i want to use some to cook fish porridge.

After that, we went to the ciruclar quey to rock market. i will talk more or rock market in my next post.

After rock market, we went to starbuck to drink and the lady left to have a earlier rest. Wilson and i went to karaokwith his friens, a place call red box. 3 hours for 10 AUS dollar, not bad!, sang from 7pm to 10pm.

Tomorrow is mid autumn festival, so i hope everyone can eat mooncake and enjoy the moon tmr! i will take photo of the lab mooncake party. Hope to update this week soon

3rd weekend, SHOP

finally, weekend come again!

On the saturday, we went to birkenhead to shop cause there is where all the factory outlet are located. All the shops sell all their products at a much cheaper price. We need to go to the city before taking bus to the westside of sydney

The weather on that day was very windy. too windy and the temperature is less than 20 degree, cold. We try to brisk walk there cause the weather was too cold.





The food court. The food there are expensive, thank goodness got subway






most of the day is spent in this shop, cause that "tai tai" stephanies cannot decided which sunglasses to get






There a yachet park in front of the brikenhead port.






This bridge, have a long history, but you can see it make from iron bar





Time to go back to the city.

2nd weekend. Darling harbour

The past week, the whole of group of us went to the darling harbour to see the sydney aquarium.

The fee to the aquarium and to and fro transport cost about AUD$33. which is not bad cause, the cost of single trip is AUD$5.20 and the aquarium entrance free itself is about AUD$28.90, so we saved about AUD$6.00, but we reached we can walk there from the city to the sydney aquarium, but never mind, we got chance to sit on the ferry.






Some of the scene at darling harbour, maybe jack sparrow pack his new ship in sydney



At the aquarium, i was amazed that size of the aquarium itself. it is huge!, they got three places whereby there is underwater tunnel like those in sentosa underworld. The aquarium have a group of animal together in the underwater tunnel, unlike singapore whereby they mixed everything up like rojah. If want to see shark, all the shark are there. Seriously, it was fasinating,








Some seal going up the shore to meet the tourists







Nemo! Stop hiding, i know where you are! haha! Got you!




After walking around, we went to cross the bridge to the other side of the river, the much more active side of the river to shop for window (window shopping for short)





Taking a photo with the monorail, since no money to take photo in the monorail or near the monorail, i take above of us!







The City itself with the monorail track in the centre.









The sea view of the darling harbour








One of the shops in darling harbour that sell dolls that can be inside of the other dolls, i think it call the maryoth- somehting one.






Both stephanie and li qiu went crazy and went to kill the bronze bird outside the fountion.











This is a short video of the crazy thing we did in darling harbour.




With that, i conclude my 2nd weekend and get ready to do lab work for another 5 days.... Sian.... Why time fly when we enjoy it?

Neigbourhood. funny pic 1.

This nieghbourhood have some funny things going around.

The first one





The name is Anthony cumming racing... it is outside the house where you keep the horse.






ferguson? Alex ferguson have a street aafter him in Sydney? that lane must have all the Man U fan






The funeral director, i know movies have director, why on earth you need director for funeral, hey! the guy is dead!







Does it prounce as "people" or "Pi Po"?, if it is "pi po", i just found the italian version of "ba Bo"






Look that the first two words of the hair salon, i see it, i won't even go in, cause i will be "Sian Aa" after looking at the first two words.

First days in School.

Day: 10 september
Venue: UNSW science block
Person to meet: Professor Staffun Kjellyberg
Time: 9am

All of us are outside the buliding at UNSW bioloigcal science block. initially wating for the professor to come, but we went up to find him instead. In the office, i saw a old guy with some white hair on his head, wear spectacle, skinny. i did n't know he was the professor. haha

So, the first day, we didn'r do much things, cause we haven't get the student card and haven't done the paper work.
So it end at 12 noon. so we went to the supermarket to buy some things. The girls bought lot and lot of chips and i bought a 2.25litre coke at a price of $1.10 AUs or 1.60 sing dollar, till today, i haven't drink finished the bottle.

From the supermarket, all of us pull 3 trolley from the supermarket to the girls lodging area, the parade lodge. The trip from supermarket to the lodge was an ADVENTURE. Got hill, slope, traffic. We went pass the hospital, the university, some shop house before reaching the lodge. the distance is about 2-3km. the trolly wasn't that easy to control, need to move the body in different way to control the trolley effectively. The worst part is the stare from the public. it was so embrassassing. People are looking at us, thinking, "what the hell are these 5 people doing?"

Then we went ot the city for a walk. lost in the city, found chinatown. Picture uploaded in the next post.

Today, we are assigned to different lab and i was the only guy (I ALSO the ONLY guy in the group going to UNSW) going alone. The lab i assigned to is Breff lab. i was brought by brandon to go into the lab. When i go in, i saw a guy who wear slipper in the lab, where all chemicals are around. i was like thinking, "what the hell was he?". then brandon say,"this guy is breff." i was like."HUH?". and Breff is the PhD holder, overlook the whole lab.

I was then under the supervisor for the day, Jasper, who show me DNA extraction, which i learn before but forget. HE did it once and when finished, it was about 3.45pm. They ask me to join them for soccer,so i went.

Imagine going to a big farm, playing soccer wiht PhDs, it is a new kind of experience. The best part, some of them was very muscular. VERY! like a bufflo. Strong, fast and swift in their movenment. i was amazed. tHe best part, even you are tired, no strength or "wasted", you hardly sweat, and the weather is so cold unlike singaproe where you will feel the sticky leg and armpit, you can continues playing for hours, non-stop. FUN! enjoyable.

The following are the photo taken in UNSW, enjoY!









The Ladies are here









The clock










The happy faces











Is it sebastian?










In the school.










The ladies, with the tree










The close up photo of the ladies











The field in UNSW










Night view 1











Night view 2

Water, Sun, Beach, Splashes! (PART 4) and Rugby

After walking, i reached congee beach, smaller but more people here

here are some of the picutres

























i was luckly to see a rugby match in process, The australian are very proud of their rugby team in the rugby competiton they involved now. Some picutre of the whole game. the grass patch is so cooling and green, not like Singapore, muddly and brown

Water, Sun, Beach, Splashes! (PART 3)

the third part of the walk at the beachs.

This place is very hard to access, need to climb the rock and walk on bumpy road made of stone.

Enjoy!








Me showing the cliff









The view of the sea











The Rock patterns










The sea with part of congee inside in








Splashs!

Water, Sun, Beach, Splashes! (PART 2)

As i walk away from the maroubra beach, i went to this coral area which have good view of the sea

Enjoy it!








The sisters helping each other









The wide view of the shore










A person swimming despite of the strong waves








Big Splash!










Big Splash!

Water, Sun, Beach, Splashes! (PART 1)

Sunday morning... nothing to do... i go and explore neighbourhood.

The place is big la... i have to walk into the estate as you seen in the bottom picture.













It was about 15-20 minutes walk inside.... when i walk finish, there i see...






Beautiful sand at the maroubra beach...









Birds gathered around the beach










Beautiful sea.









Nice ocean.