Not particularly awesome but... manageable

So, sem started couple of days ago. And as usual, all students in the Arts faculty are being bombarded with unit guides and unit readers. They are something which I have learnt to be friends with, although I may actually hate MOST of the journal articles/ scholarly material in there.

Well, Authorship lecture had this sombre cum creepy mood, especially after the lecturer said that it was very very very very very very very very very very very abstract besides being the hardest unit for mass comm/writing students...  Yes, I am hoping I will PASS. I've seen some whom I have known come back again this sem with the sad look on their faces. :(

Which means I better be well on Wednesdays
Which means no randomly skipping classes on that day because my tute so happens to be right after the lecture

At least, Aussie didn't change the assignment question. Thank God.

Suffocating bits aside, I sat beside this Australian girl in Authorship today. Because all the other seats were taken up except the back row. As usual, I was having reservations towards her, but then, I thought... MAYBE SHE's not that bad a person.... WHY NOT BE THE CONVERSATION STARTER?





Oh yeah, I finally talked to her! I'm so happy! LOL!  She asked me why was I doing this subject, and I said: because it's compulsory for my major. Found out that she was majoring in ENGLISH!

UGH! Imagine my reaction when she told me that. Then, I told her that there's no English major over here. So, closest to English was COMM or Writing. Even then, I did not like the other units in the Writing major so I told myself to minor in it instead. Heh, complicated, I know!.

If only they offered English over here! I could do some MORE EXCITING electives instead of what? TV/FILM or even globalization.... Like, how many times you want me to do that?

Also found out that she was from Clayton. The main, gigantic campus in Aussie. I'm sure she's saying... a lot of things which she doesn't have to tell me because a lot of Aussies, when they go back, cheh, so small only M'sian campus. lol.

Oh, we share the same tute for Authorship! :)

Enough of her, tomorrow I'd be on campus for almost 10 hrs thanks (no thanks) to the 5-6-hour gap between classes.


Decided to come up with a list of things I could do

1. Sleep!
2. Assignment(s)
3. Logic games!
4. Online on laptop!
5. Read the books I bght with the vouchers!
6. Write songs/ stories (Ya, right!)
7. Go to student centre (and ask them to change the song they're playing - in case it's METAL/ROCK)
8. Do my readings (meh)
9. Eat! Eat! Eat!
10. SMS
11. Play with tablet
12. Find my lecturers and talk to them (if they're around)

12 weeks of this! OMG!

I hope I'll pull through 3rd year just like any other year

My 'g' isn't working well

Looks like keyboards on laptops don't last that long. I always have to press my 'g' harder when typin.

And to think that sem starts tomorrow, haih... is so surreal. Back to BORING assignments. 3 months 17 days (and 2 hours) gone just like that. Seriously? SO FAST!!!!!!!!!! I bet everyone is having mixed feelings about oing back to full-nerd mode. On one hand, it's ood to see your kawans. On the other, I am dreading assignments.

Had been readin the unit guide + the scanned readings thanks to the Aussie campuses for uploading first. Thank God, the first reading for Week 2 isn't that hard to understand because it has sections and the language used is pretty much everyday English.

Alamak, 'g' you better work when I'm doing assignments, man. I don't want to be penalised because of lousy spelling, typos and language.

Still trying to accept the fact that my three-month break is gone :(

With my head in the clouds

You know how they say

If you love someone, let them go

So, does it mean, if we hate someone, we shall keep them?

Are we to keep our enemies?

OMG, this is insane.

Perhaps, I think too much.


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OMG someone from Editorial Board just asked me to write FICTION! After like, GOD knows how many years! Personally, I prefer FACTUAL stuff but anyhow, it's going to be a life-changin experience and I am ready to drown into the wonders of fiction writing

Like, thinking of character names. How to have a plot that's not boring, ordinary and cliche. How to make sure university students actually read every single word I write.

This reminds me of a conversation I had about two sems ago with one of my lecturers.

He asked me what MY major was.
Told him : Writing.
Heh, but then I added that my parents wanted me to do mass communication.

Out of nowhere, that question popped up.

Do you have a blog?

I think my heart stopped for a minute when he mentioned the word 'blog'. I was thinking "Oh no! Nobody else is going to FIND my blog! Not a lecturer, at least!

When I smiled, he knew the answer. I didn't even have to say a LOUD and CLEAR 'YES'.

Then, he continued "Start from there-lah".

Oh, okay. Phew!

Said goodbye & walked out of  his room which was filled with MOVIE posters (obviously because he's a FILM & TV expert)

Oh well, i hope I'd write something more substantial than this for my uni magazine. Adoi. If not, they would probably ask me to stop contributing. D:

After what seems like ages

Suddenly I don't feel like I need to highlight everything going on in my life.

This blog isn't like those days.

Isn't downright hilarious

like the good old days of  you know what
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On another note, I am so glad I re-started ballet after nearly a year-long hiatus...no  thanks to the horrid schedule Monash Uni M'sia has been giving me.


This coming sem, I'm fortunate to have a day off - the day ballet classes would usually go on.

In case you're wondering, I ain't that future ballerina kind of dancer. Still need to do loads to reach that level.

And hopefully, I'd be one :) lol.

YEAH, I actually came to tell the whole virtual world, this. >.<

That moment

when you desperately want to play something on YouTube but your iTunes is playing your favourite song


ugh!

The search engine is not helping

OMG!

Have been doing research for next sem's proposal and I realized, the more specific I get, I cannot find anything! :( Or maybe it's just because I'm doing something pretty Malaysian. Like, my brain can't think of anything more exciting to research on. On one hand, there's the danger of getting carried away by an oh-so-cool topic yet don't have enough sources to back up whatever you want to say. On the other, there's the danger of having a very boring topic/ research question that YOU FAIL to CONNECT with, causing you to lose (a portion of that 50) marks.

No, I am NOT tweaking my senior's assignment; that is equivalent to the death penalty.

Argh, so much negativity. Maybe I need to watch AI just for some kind of inspiration.

In 20 days time

Sigh, time really flies. :( Third year coming soon and I'm a lil' nervous because I'd be doing subjects that are way more mind-boggling than before. Well, to ease my nerves a little, I have been TRYING to read past assignments and may I just say that Jen-Li, I applaud you for your choice of words + language that you use. :) I could not have written a better essay than you, man. Seriously. I mean, for a HEAVILY theoretical essay, it's amazing how you wow the readers with your stylish openings for each paragraph and your vocabulary which is nothing short of marvelous. (Heh, even for me to write this, I had to think so hard! )

I wonder IF I can have some amount of your vocab to help me in writing my assignments later when I have to. To think that she is my junior.... feels.... wow.... funny?

Aiyah, I've to go layan more assignments now. Goodbye.

It's February already?

Wow.

I have 24 days of holidays left.

So fast?

A blink of an eye ago, I was struggling with subjects I didn't like.

A blink of an eye ago, I was sitting for exam papers which were so... okay, erm... it wasn't that bad but... it's just how they phrased the questions that made me want to PUKE.

A blink of an eye ago, it was NOV 10 -  the day of my last paper as well as the start of "freedom".


But now, I could only wish it was NOV 10 again....

I thought January just came into the picture.

I thought I just started reading Sartre.

I thought I just kinda 'befriended' Authorship.

I thought I just came back from CNY madness.

But CNY is indeed coming to a close, like it or not.

Guess we really have to go back to our daily (mundane) routines