Deal

Deal? Well, it is not the movie deal or not deal. It is the movie 'Deal' in year 2008. I like that movie even thoug it is kinda boring in the beginning. First of all it is bout the game of Poker. Second of all, I learn something from it. 

Poker. What do I like bout playing poker? It is all bout mind game. On the table I can choose to be anyone I want. Honest player? Deceiving player? I don't really mind bout losing in a game of poker. Maybe because I have been betting small on the game. It doesn't really bother me. Good point is, when I feel like I want to win then I will be winning in the table. 

Nah, I don't learn on how to play poker from the movie. I am not saying that I am a good poker player as well. I have learn something. Better than that. For those who have access to my personal blog will be able to know bout it. 

As for today, coudy morning. Good weather to laze around a bit. I have been doing my assignment for the whole day yesterday and today will be the same day. However, we need to go to some factory today to complete our assignment on Engrineering Process. Sam is lazy for gyn session again today. Well, I still work out a bit at home. So far, I am starting boxing soon. Might take up long boarding as well. Before that I will have to focus on finishing this semester first. I should. It is finishing in this month time.

Oh yea.. One more thing, early morning with a glass of milk is still my favourite way to start my day. No matter how much booze I drink, I still prefer a cold glass of milk. Still the same ehh...

Seasonal blogger

I am a seasonal blogger. I will suddenly update a lot of posts and suddenly quiet down. Blogging actually is tobuild my momentum on the study desk. It is in order for me to do my assignments and also my studies later on.

Today, I have to let my body rest from all the workouts. Fucking tired. So, what is interesting today?

I had watched two movies today. Both whacky movies. Meet Dave as well as The Wackness.

What did I earn from them?

Meet Dave, (What is the feeling of love and can you demonstrate it? When you feel it, you will no longer need the explanations.) 

The Whackness. Well, in this movie, we can see how screw up this world is for a ot of people. How they lead their scew up life and in the mean time struggling hard trying to achieve their goals in life. Do they have goals in the movie? I think one of them does. 

Basically, I am waiting for my friends laptop to fnish up the assignment which is due later. Just reformat my laptop. It feels that it is a brand new laptop. Nice and smooth. If only my life is ike my laptop. Once I have problem, I can just use one or two hours and reformat the whole thing. Then I can start all over again completely forgetting the past. Haha. I was just joking.

Well, besides that, today another chaos happened again. 3 guys trying to cook their dinner causing a whole mess in the kitchen once again. At least tody is better than before. Improvement. I am starting to think. I might have found somehting else that is fun to do. My friend always jkingly ask me to start a new life with a new name. It might be fun though. Since I am in a new country. Well, Australia still seem new to me. To be frank I always think that I can disguise as students from different country. Latest one is, people think that I have Canada accent. That is new. Maybe with my new name I can form a team like the movie Ocean. Since I have found two people to join in. It wil not be hard I guess. Just that we have to find talented people. Talented, commited and also perfectionist. The basic criteria.

What else. What happened today that send me thinking? Nothing else... 

8th Jan

8th Jan 09. Nice date. Woke up early and fresh? Yeap. I am fresh. After a 5 hours of early sleep due to slight headache last night. I think I had defined my goal for this year last night in the blog. Kinda blurry about what I had written. Well, you will be writing the "original things" when you are blurry. Human, they are easily being blinded when they are awake. Blinded by their thoughts. Their so called thoughts that they thought is essentials and important. Mostly the thoughts are just reasons for they themselves or things that they call problems. Or maybe blinded by what is in front of them now. The have forgot bout what they really want deep down and forgot to learn on how to fight for it or appreciate it.

Wow. How come I am saying all these early in the morning. Seem like I am able to wake up early this morning.

Flashback

Flashback. I have been here nearly for the whole year of 2008. I have been trough even more last year. I have learn about a lot of things. Seen a lot of things. I do still remember how I ended up here. Ended up in Australia. On the 14th of February then it will be a year. I still remember how I have to rush around to settle my things when I arrived here. It is surprising that Shimpei too arrived on the same date as I.

To think of it, when I have to make the decision to come here, it only took me one night. Just one night I have to work out on all the cons and pros of coming over to here. That is excluding the incident which happened to my family before I leave. When I think back, it wasn't easy for me to make the decision. I always tell others that,"My mother asked me to choose either Actuarial science or Engineering but I chosen engineering instead". It is true that my mum gave me the options to choose. But for me to take any decision, I always had a lot of outcomes running in my mind. Like Rach said, "I think too much".

Coming over suddenly does make me feel weird. But in the mean time, I do not stop there feeling weird. I know what I have to do. Maybe nobody knows what is my year 2008 resolutions. At that year my resolution is to get a kick start in my career path. I have got blinded by the resolution that year but in the end I manage to achieve good results in that year. Yea, I finally manage to kick start something even though I am still in my studies.

Few days ago, I manage to chat with a long lost "Best Friend" of mine. It has been a year since we chat with each other. The last time we met and chat with each other was exactly on the 1st of January 2008. We did have a good chat. Then something she said that made me contemplated for a moment at that time. "Now you got friends, family, relationship, business, and etc. You are the perfect man now." I would not agree to that. Maybe to some people a perfect man is that kind of man. To me a perfect man is someone that is able to protect and look over all the people around him. Maybe it is a traditional way of thinking but a man will really have to focus on their career first at a certain point of their life. Even though they might have family, friends or even a relationship, how will they be able to maintain all these without knowing the facts that they do not have a career or to make it simple, an income? That is the main reason I why I have decided to come over to Australia.

In Malaysia, even when I do part time jobs, I do not take them seriously. Even in studies, I have been taking things for granted from my parents. Many others do not see it but I do. I am living my life and I know what is going around with my life. To be frank, deep down I was afraid. Before coming here, I was afraid that in future, I won't be able to achieve anything and let everyone around me down. Most of the time, I do feel that my family have high hopes for me. However, with the way I am leading my life in Malaysia, I know I will fail them. That is why I have to make the decision to come over here.

I do have things that I am afraid of. In this blog, I will be putting a bit of my thoughts and feelings into it. I do learn something from last year too. That is to let people know what we actually are feeling and also thinking. Yesterday, when I was chatting with my cousin. I do feel good when I actually tell him that he can stay over and feel free to contact me if he needs any help since he is coming over here to Australia soon. It is true that I choose my current place of living because I was getting ready in case he is coming. It is also true that I did not tell anyone about this. So, it is not surprising that he didn't know about it. Well, even if you want to help others too, you got to speak out and tell them.

Well, I am a bit dizzy here. Another birthday celebration just now I guess. Never drink on an empty stomach. It really gets you high. Maybe I have high metabolism. It got absorbed into my body very fast. Yea. Very fast. Just now during dinner we do have interesting topics. It is true that we can buy anything in this world right now. Including friends. My friend ask me to send an email to all those who are in Australia, stating that there will be a free Karaoke on this Saturday. I guess all will come. Definitely. Pity shit. I have no problem telling people now, among all my friends, I only trust 4 of them. Yea, only four. One I know from primary school. Two I know from my high school. One is different school but doing law in UK now. Cause they know what I am thinking about. That simple.

Yea. Life is simple. I prefer to project that to other no matter how complicated the things are to me. As for this year resolutions. I will bring my team name up to IDAHO, USA. Nah, my name is not important. If you guys are in my team that means you trust me then I will use my time to work with you guys. So far, our name is already in Victoria. That is just a small step. Malaysia? Nah.. I am not really interested. I always aim higher and go for it. We as perfectionist will go for things that we have confidence in. If not we will prefer to let go or put it aside. So far, don't keep me those bullshit bout envy about our opportunity and you do not have time for it. If you really want it then ride in the boat with me. I don't care bout what you guys have and who you are. If you are in my team then we will work this trough together. My new year resolution. I know I am having my "high education" and also my career now. Then I will just need to work for it now.

Differences

Not long before this I did post up a post on how messy my house was. It is not really "was". It is messy again after last night party. It is always messy. After sleeping for two hours, a bit of workout in the morning, I walked downstairs. Stacks of pizza boxes. Bottles of "drinks" and glasses everywhere. =.=

I have been to Ing Ing's house before this, and seen the way on how her house mate and her cook together in the kitchen. They worked together very well. Cutting, frying and cleaning up the place. Their kitchen was as though as it was a new place. However, our house, when we cook together. "You suck man" and "Fuck you, always I wash" and "Last time I did that" are some of the phrases we can hear all the time. In the end we will just eat up our meal and lft most of the things there. It will be clean up after a few days when we finally got tired of looking at the dirty kitchen.

This is just some random post after seeing how dirty the kitchen was. Well, it is surprising that Shimpei actually said that our house looks neat when he came over the other day. I was wondering maybe among all the guys houses, ours do look neat or maybe because Ing Ing came over to cook the other day and clean up the kitchen nicely. Argh.. Screw it.

I think I have miss out a post. Well, I will update that tonight.

Amateur Photographer

It is 4.41am. I should be sleeping. I am tired, a bit sick, as well as having stomachache. Might as well find some stuffs to do. For instance update my blog? I should. There are a few posts that I should have update earlier. Well, a lot of things happened in the past two weeks I guessed. Today, my friends and I were still surprised that we had already started our classes. Time really flies. Two weeks of holiday had gone.

Amateur photographer. Yea, on the 30th of December. I got hold on a DSLR camera. Cost around 2000 AUD. What I can say is, the camera is worth the price. So on the day, it rains early in the morning when four people had decided to go for a trip around Mornington. Cherry picking and Strawberry picking were the main events for the day. Pictures taken by Sam Cheong

First of all our destination was the Cherry picking farm. Well, we will have to pay 8 AUD to pick the Cherry. It was cool as we are able to eat as much as we like in the farm. As usual, I haven't taken my breakfast. It was indeed a feast for me. We reached there kinda early, there wasn't many people around. Perfect for us to go wild around the farm.

Left: Cherry trees
Right: The fruits on the trees






After loitering in the farm for around 2 hours, we moved on to Strawberry Farm. It wasn't far away from our first destinations. However, there are a lot of people in the Strawberry farm. Guess more people like Strawberry than Cherry. Well, we again paid 8 AUD per entry and we are only allowed to bring home 500g each. It is enough for us as we do get to eat as we pluck for our own.

Seem like looking for Strawberries is not an easy task.

Left: Model of the day (Ing Ing)
Picture taken by Sam Cheong









After we had our lunch of Strawberries as well as Cherries, we head over to Flinders. It is famous for lots of fishing fans as there are many types of fishes can be found there. The port was build and made easy for fishing as well as divers. Practically, we did not get to fish on that day as we did not get ready anything for it. However, we manage to get good pictures at the place.

On the left, we can see the port. One of the well-known fishing spot. I also heard that, Salmon can be fished here. It is all depends on the weather. Seems like fishing does require some knowledge.





After that, we went to Capestown light house. Another great place with beautiful sceneries.

One of the magnificent scene.

Few of the pictures taken around the light house. Some of my favorites.






Last and not least. We do have group pictures taken.

The group picture was divided into two. Seem like a double date? Nah, it isn't. Trust me.





Well, that is the end of the trip with all those pictures that I had taken. For the whole trip, I had taken about 300 to 400 pictures and not more than 20 seem nice. This is what we call a perfectionist. Of so many pictures, there are only a few which can be kept. However, I am still an amateur in handling the camera. I will need lots of experiences in handling it. Right now, what I have to learn is composition in picture taking. It is not easy. It can only be perfected trough experiences. Seem like, I do have some talent in this field too.

Scenes taking, objects taking, human taking and etc... They acquire different skills. It is really different from the normal digital camera that we use regularly. DSLR. It will just make you fall in love with picture taking.

Year 2009

Finally, the year 2009. I finally just woke up from my beauty sleep. Yea, it has been kinda tiring from all the activities. (Not to mentioned I was having my weights on all the time.) So far everything is good. Manage to go around Mornington again on the 30th, watch some spectacular musical fireworks in the city and also threw a small party on the first. Sleep like a pig till the 2nd. Oh yea, we even squeeze WASABI into our nose on the 1st.

Year 2009! Time really flies. It will almost be a year since I had left Malaysia. WISHING EVERYONE a very HAPPY NEW YEAR here. (^_^)

This year, it will be going to be different again. Like others would say, "A New Chapter of Our Life".