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Whinging post

Each semester, when it comes to pre-exam period, i find myself coming here and start whinging about the exam timetable. Reason is simple. Curtin's exam timetabling SUCKS!!! BIG TIME!

why is it that every single semester ever since my 1st year in uni, i've always had 4 of my exams in 7 days? why is it that for this sem, i'm having as crappy a timetable that i had for the last sem?? 4 units in 4 days??!! Come on! they just want us accounting and finance students to fail?? other major students have their exams spread across 2 weeks. while ours? 1st exam on the 1st day. and the rest on the consecutive days. wat the hell are they doing? and this sem, im doing 3 hard units and 1 easy one. 3 hard units ey!

first exam 6.45pm
second exam 6.45pm, which goes on for 3 hrs, which means i finish exam at 9.45pm (crazy huh??)
third exam which is the next day 3.30pm. how am i supposed to have sufficient time to recover from the previous day and still revise for this subject?
fourth exam 9.00am which also happens to be the hardest unit for this sem.

GOD! by the time i get to the 3rd day, i would have been all drained and have no energy to fight for the last exam which is the hardest unit. (btw my internal mark for this unit is just on the passing bench)

whinging whinging whinging. yes i am whinging bcoz i hate it! i hate it that they have to do this to us every time! i hate it that other students have their exams spread out so they have enough time to prepare for the exams. to make things worst, we still had assignments and quizzes 2 weeks before the exam week, and only 1 week of study break! which is definitely NOT enough for 4 exams in 4 days starting from the 1st day of the exam week!

my Auditing tutor said today that, yes he thinks the exam timetable is really bad (for the one on the second day which goes from 6.45pm-9.45pm), but in defense of Curtin University, they only have a certain amount of lecture halls which can fit so many of us students and its hard to adjust the time. BULLSHIT! if it's that hard, why can't they just adjust the time to the 2nd week? or the last day of the exam week? why do they have to put it in the first week then squeezing with all other units and for it to be at night, at such ridiculous hours? i am so stressed right now i am so filled with anger. some students even say they just want students to fail so that they can repeat it the next sem and they earn more money. i wouldn't say it's entirely true. but, its true in a sense that, commerce stream has the most students, commerce students are allowed, in the event that they fail, to repeat the same unit the next sem, and if they fail again, they repeat again, while other streams are not allowed to. And also, we all know that most students taking commerce are asians, which means they are international students paying higher fees. more income for curtin university! hooray! Education is not for profit!

damn it. i've wasted 20 mins of my study time to type this but , it makes me feel better. at least i get to express my anger and put them out in words. fine! i shall go back to my studies and continue cramming everything into my head and just hope that i get through this.

btw, i know i've said this before, but this time, i REALLY won't do as well as previous sems. i'd be happy to just pass these hard units. which also means my weighted average marks are most likely going to go down as well. wat to do?

This semester's uni timetable has been SHIT for me. I'm still working abt the same hours as i've always been, but uni's timetable is just SHIT! It makes me tired ALL THE TIME!

on Tuesday i have a lecture which goes from 6.30pm-8.30pm. And there's only 1 lecture, normally we get to choose between 2, the morning lecture and night lecture.. but this one, there's only 1 bloody NIGHT lecture. imagine i have to work from 10-5, then catch the bus to uni and go for the lecture till 8.30 when it's all cold and dark outside. this is just stupid. why would they assume that all 3rd year students would have cars, and it's a bloody 10 mins walk to the bus stop from the lecture hall.. wat abt all the rape cases and assault cases that have happened from the past? I told my boss, Mike about this and he said, "No way! I can't believe u have to take the bus home at 8.30! If i were you, I won't even go." And every Tuesday, after work, he will remind me to text him when i get home safely (how sweet). And then, there's a morning lecture on Wednesday which starts at 8.30am. Which i've alrdy skipped for 2 weeks bcoz i'm just too tired from Tuesday and bcoz it was cold and raining heavily.

And then, on Friday, i have 3 tutorials and 2 lectures, starting from 9am-6.30pm, again when it's dark outside alrdy (coz it's winter now).. but yea i suppose 6.30 isn't as bad as 8.30, but still, i'm just too tired at the end of the day and then i have to wake up early for work on Saturday. Sunday is the only day where i get to rest, but seems like it isn't really doing much for me. i'm still tired and i feel really crappy and moody throughout the whole week especially when i have the 2 bloody NIGHT LECTURES.

Sigh.. and the units that i'm taking this semester are all hard units.. i'm worried abt my studies, i'm worried abt my future after i graduate, and i'm tired all the time.. a few friends of mine have been telling me to just stop worrying abt the future bcoz there's no way of telling the future for sure, even u have it all planned out.. and also bcoz it makes u stressed and tired which is certainly not wad i want.. but late at night when i'm lying on my bed, after been through one hell of a day, i still can't seem to fall right into sleep.. wat is wrong with me? i wish i could tell my brain to stop thkng, to be positive, to just enjoy life as it is.. but 4 days work and 3 days of uni a week, how am i supposed to enjoy this life?

From left to right, me myself, Mike a.k.a my boss and Melissa a.k.a mel or 'smelly'(a name my boss came up with for her)..

I've been talking abt work and my super nice boss all the time but guess it's time i actually introduce them with a picture now. Mike, lived in Malaysia, Penang, jalan bunga bakawali (he still knows how to pronouce that now) when he was a kid for a few years. so he claims himself to be "half-asian". likes to add 'lah' at the end of every sentence and wants me to say 'lah' at the end of my every sentence as well. We (me & mel) call him grandpa bcoz he looks like one. and we always like to tease him and say that he is 50 years old when he is only 40. his wife, Angie, who is not in the picture bcoz she only works once a week, that is when me n mel both have uni, is the same age as he is but looks as if she's 30. she's real cool and she always teases mike and make fun of him together with me n mel. i once dobbed on mike when he secretly ate a piece of angie's calamari. oh right that was when we went bowling with mike, angie and their cute little 8 year old daughter Emily (a.k.a Em). of course, being such nice people, they paid for our bowling session and our dinner for the night. Mike suggested that we should go laser shooting the next time and dim sum eating. he wants me n mel to teach him where to eat and how to eat dim sum. like i said, he SO wants to be asian.

Mel, full name Melissa was born in some asian country but grew up in Australia. pretty, cute, same size as me, but is 1 year younger than i am. very nice person and likes to tease Mike and make fun of him together with me.

of course, not forgetting Ben, who's not in the picture becoz he only works once a week in Telechoice. That's bcoz he's actually a manager in Dell. Ben, a long time friend helped me so much with my job finding. been thru my ups and downs together with me and has been and still is a great friend =D

so, i'll cut it short bcoz i have uni from 9-6.30pm tomorrow, we are one happy team and have been the number 1 store in australia for a few months =D (which is the only reason why this picture was taken bcoz we're goin to be featured in the Mobility magazine as store of the month!)

so that's pretty much it. good nite everyone

Lucky - Jason Mraz ft Colbie Caillat

A song i've fallen in love with


*update* sucky imeem only lets you embed 30 secs part of the song, so i decided to use youtube instead.

the post-exams

It's been a while since I've finished my exams, but just never got the time to write something here. Everytime before the exams, i'd thk that once i've finished my exams i'll be free, but no, im still busy and tired all the time. coz i'm using my free time to work! and of course, go walk around with my teddy bear hehe..

Well, how did the exams go, i would say.. mehhhh it went okay, good but not too good nor too bad.. thanks to the shitty exam timetable which i mentioned in my previous post, i was so stressed out and sleep deprived. But i'm glad i made it through.. pheww~

Plans for the holiday: sleep, work, eat, sleep, work, eat, spend time with teddy bear, sleep, work, eat, sleep, work, eat, spend time with teddy bear and the list goes on.. Boring life, ain't it? yeah, life of a typical uni student overseas with no car and no extra money to spend watsoever. it's satdee (auzzie way of saying saturday which my boss likes to say) and i'm at home, bored, tired from work but don't wanna go to sleep yet coz it's too early and BOREDDDD. explains why i'm finally writing something here..

Geez.. human beings are just so ungrateful and they want everything don't they? When I was so busy with work and uni I didn't even have time to breathe and hoped i had more than 24 hours a day.. but now i have a teensy weensy bit more of spare time and i'm complaining that i'm bored. *slap**slap*

hm.. i need a new pair of work shoes. the black flats that i bought from malaysia are torn.. shows how much i have to walk to the bus stop for work everyday until it's torn. don't blame the quality no. but it's so hard to find shoes for my size! i'm a size 4, and the smallest size they have here is size 5. i went to Kmart and went to the kids department hunting for shoes, and finally i found a size 3 for kids which fits perfectly. but they are so kiddish! they've got the flowers, and the cute patterns. Soooo not work material hey. Not forgetting they're expensive (when comparing to the prices of shoes in malaysia). i mean come on, in malaysia for RM50 you can get a pair of very decent and nice looking shoes. but here, AUD50. just kinda makes u not wanna spend that sort of money on something that would have cost RM10 to buy in malaysia. okay i might be exaggerating, with RM10 i thk u can only buy those ah ma shoes. maybe RM20, or 25.

My parents asked me what i wanted for my 21st birthday this year.. i know there are still 3 months till my birthday is here, but still, it's a big one this year.. i want a big present of course! but question is i don't even know what i want.. well, jewellery, my mom got me a bracelet last yr. money? im earning money myself now. mobile phone? i work in a phone shop i get to see and play with new phones that come out every now and then. well, i was thinking of a car, but i know that's probably a bit too much to ask for. heh heh.. aiyo, one can dream, can't she? Well, there was another thing that I was thkng of.. I want to go to Hong Kong at the end of this year. Teddy bear said he could sponsor half of my air tickets to Hong Kong and i could stay at his house, with his parents of course.. it was just something that sort of came up while i was just talking to teddy bear one day. i was watching some hk series and i said to him:" i want to go to hong kong!" and he said that i could and his parents have always wanted to meet me. Honestly, i've always wanted to go to hong kong being practically growing up watching hk tv series, and being there once when i was 12. Well, if only i would be able to save some money by the end of the year. We'll see...

Good! i've written more than i've intended for this time. so tata for now~

Final exam! Eeek!

Hello everyone!

Shouldn't be blogging at this time since i'm in the mid of 'intensive studying' for my finals.

But anyway, thought i'd let u guys know abt my final exam timetable (Crappiest timetable EVER!):

09/06: 9.00am Accounting (External Reporting) 260

3.30pm Principles of Finance 215

11/06: 9.00am Mathematical Economics 201 (CRAPPIEST UNIT & CRAPPIEST UNIT COORDINATOR & LECTURER & TUTOR EVERRRR! AND I DO MEAN EVER!)

12/06: 12.15pm Accounting Systems 204

So, as u can see, i have two exams on the first day. and both units are NOT EASY units okay???

4 units in 4 days, crap!

Sorry mom, no more 3 high distinctions for this sem liaw :(

P.S To Ling Ling: I read ur tag, will do it when i'm free (after the finals) atm just toooooo busy!