Another post! Ronan's on fire!!

Actually, quite true that i am on fire.. but in a bad way! Wasting time when i should be doing my group project ! And it's very late at night now. So gonna sleep and hopefully can wake up early enough to finish off my part before going for said project meeting at uni!

By the way i also just realised how fun and nice this audio editing software, Audacity is! It is free and can do a lot of stuffs! Like for e.g., i can record using microphone just myself making beats sound. Then record again with me humming some melody and combine them together into a song! Anyways it's just cool and easy to figure out how to use so it's good =)!

I spent some time just now (and ended up delayed from sleeping soon) to find how to upload songs into this blog and couldn't. Otherwise i would have upload a test song i made which i quite cool i find, haha!

Happy Belated Birthday, Ronan!

Boy.. i wanted to write on my birthday but then i ended up not.. and now it is more than a week later only did i finally pull myself up to write one. Hmmm.. i actually thought of quite a lot of stuffs to say as i reflected on my birthday but i now seem to have lost quite most of it..  and this is my first post of the new year 2010!

I suppose i really have to stop procrastinating.. i now remember that i wanted to blog only after i have replied people's birthday wishes on Facebook, but i think i am just halfway done so if i go by the rate i am going, this post might just be written in Feb or March -.- so i decided not to wait.

Yup, procrastinating can just be my bane, (or something like that, if i did not use that word wrongly -.-) but, my memory too, i think. I think i can remember well but i forget stuffs easily, even recent stuffs.. well, the stuffs are still there in my head, and once i am reminded, i can recall very well. So as i am typing this, i realised, perhaps the solution to not easily forget stuffs is that i need to recall them often.

[after some 11 hours]

Yup.. i think i have lost my train of thoughts after taking a break to go for lunch when i started writing this post.

I have been thinking, of course, throughout the whole day on what to say. And i suppose it is true (for me, perhaps), that in order not to be forgetful of the things i have done and those that happened around me, i think i better recall and reflect on the stuffs that happened throughout the day by the end of the day before i sleep.

Why do i suddenly decided that i should be writing all these down today? Because i woke up early this morning from some dream whereby i was facing the consequences of procrastinating, having not completed the tasks that i am supposed to be doing and in the end, having to rush here and there. Thinking about it now, i can't really remember the details that made me felt so rushed (i actually ran here and there in the dream and  it being so real, made me felt exhausted and tired when i woke up from it) but i suppose it is clear enough that i should buckle up and change. I think it is definitely a wake up call from God.

So yeah, what have i learned these few days? I have been putting time and efforts on the wrong stuffs at the wrong time, i.e. bad prioritising. I have been wasting time. Every day of this week went by so fast that come to think of it, it is now nearly 2 months after coming back home, and slightly more than a month away from my flight back to Melbourne and it will be about another 10 more months before i come back here, to this bedroom of mine which i have been sleeping in for about 12 years before flying off to Melbourne to study last year. What have i done or achieved in this period of 2 months? I don't know.. other than the 8-day trip to Singapore (it was fun and worth it, actually), the (usually) 5hours-sessions of playing LAN games with friends and my cousin, a bit of driving sessions with my sister, the suppers, a few outings and that's pretty much it. I also have been spending time at home pretty much these few weeks after coming back from the trip but other than helping around with the house chores (the maid ran away to get married) and recently, watching matches of Australian Open 2010 with family, most of my time would be spent being in front of the computer, like now -.- so i suppose that is why i don't feel like i have done much actually after coming back. Nothing much worth mentioning, perhaps? (other than what i have mentioned, i suppose)

Where am i going on with this post? I don't really know, but perhaps i do? My resolutions for the year, i suppose? A reminder for the future Ronan when he reads this? Perhaps i can start writing a memoir or something, seeing how i tend to write so much. But anyways, talking so much would not really make a different without the change of heart. I really hope i can remind myself to remember stuffs, to prioritise, to not waste my time and efforts on these temporarily stuffs. It all needs balance, i suppose? Oh well Ronan, you know what i mean, and i hope i can come back to update more in this blog in the time to come, and end it on a good note. Something like that? Haha oh wellllllll

Well, if you (not really you, future Ronan, but my friend, who has gone through all the hardships to continue reading till this paragraph here, OK, you too, stranger), i will end this post here with a little screen capture i took a while ago that i hope, would tickle your funny bone =D:

i don't know whether it is subtle but can you spot the irony =D??

Yup that is all for now.

I realised....

I realised I have actually played 4hours of Left 4 Dead 2 just now!! It was fun! And by saying so I am not condoning violence.. it was just for fun and some bonding time with my close cousin whom I have not seen for 10 months, haha (excuses XD)!

And I also realised another thing about travelling (though it is not really related to being in a long trip) is the feeling I had when I just got back home, realising that I was still in Melbourne the night before and back home the next morning (supposed to be afternoon but thanks to daylight saving)! I remembered and realised this after just now suddenly thought of the stuff I did in that one week in Melbourne before coming back home. The memories were only just a few days ago but just because (I think,) they were done in Melbourne, it seemed like they were from quite a long time ago! Something like that.

Playing by staring at the computer screen for 4 hours caused me a headache XD so I am going to sleep now (soon).

Back in KK!

Yup.. back in the K-K-(one more of that and i might be offending someone already)!

It's raining now. Actually, it has been raining the whole day! Today is my 4th day back. The weekend has been great, going out with family and friends, catching up, sharing jokes and games, etc.! Everything is good and I thank God for that!

Today, I am just kinda stuck at home, waiting for the opportunity to go out. I still can't drive out by myself yet and here it is not like in Melbourne where you can just walk out and go wherever in the city or tram/train to wherever out of the city. Talking about that, I will share this plan of mine to just one day sit on a tram/train and just travel wherever the whole day.. it will definitely be fun.. as long as it is not in a rainy day I suppose.

The internet here in my house has been much better, with much more stable connection. But I wonder why it is such a difficult thing for the videos to be buffered. Watching a 40sec video in YouTube would take like, 5mins, AND the buffering has not even reached half O.O! Been accustomed to how the videos got buffered so easily in Melbourne, haha so yup, can't really watch any videos other than reading blogs, getting updated with tech stuffs and facebooking! And chatting of course, but at the moment, can't really chat with anyone so I decided to blog. Had the feel to blog on Sunday night but i ended up dozing off in front of the comp and when I got up a short while later, I lost the feel and just went to bed, haha

The trip back from Melbourne via Singapore was good. And I realised, going on quite a long trip sure will have some interesting stories for people (I put here 'people' because I think mine was not that interesting or not that many). It is fascinating (for me) looking at the people around you like when you're queueing up to be checked in in the airport. And boy for me it was a very very long line especially how there were only 2 counters opened O.O! Singapore Airlines, I think I can understand your perhaps intention, on encouraging people to do online checking by having 3 counters for it, but it was not enough for the people that did not! Thank God after a while (actually, close to about an hour later), the First Class and Business Class counters started letting the Economic people (Class-ists >=/!!) to check in there.

And I now realised I really like to observe people especially when I am passing time like in the lines at passport counters, boarding gates, luggage claim area, etc. as I wait. Human interactions fascinates me XD
I actually thought of blogging about the interesting stuffs that happen to me during my trip back but I now kinda forgotten the stuffs and only remember one or two. So I will see if my memory comes back as I type.

One thing interesting (for me), was when I had my passport checked in Melbourne Tullamarine Airport:

   The officer just held up my passport with the page of my personal details and a photo of me opened and stared at me, pretty much scrutinising my face, for like, half a minute? Well maybe not that long but it did feel so and I just smiled back a bit sheepishly I think, then after that the officer just stamped on my passport (with quite a force) and handed me back my passport, while still keeping that face of his that looked as if I am actually an imposter or like, just trying to cheat him or something, haha! So that was a first for me, and I understand and am okay with it since the passport photo was taken 4 years ago and I think I looked a bit different now, especially with my long hair? haha!

And here a photo I found from Google:

This is something you will see on the highway on the way to the Melbourne Airport. On Tullamarine Highway if I am not wrong. I like the wavy thingy. I have been travelling passed it at night times so I did not get the chance to take a good picture of it. So thanks Google! And I will state here that the photo(s) is/are not mine! I am not trying to get money out of this so fly off, legal vultures!! hahaha

Oh and it is sunny now! hmmm quite a nice weather.. I think I have written quite a lot. I can't think of any other interesting stuffs that happened on my trip back other than that I sat between 2 people during my 7hours something flight to Singapore and I sat at the aisle seat but at the last row on my way back home.

I also watched a few movies while on the flight to Singapore. Like District 9, Mary and Max, and A Chinese Odyssey Part 1. I only finished watching District 9 but the other 2:

Mary and Max: I find it interesting though I ended up falling asleep halfway through it (I was sleepy already) but it is an interesting story of a little Aussie girl, Mary, writing to this stranger living in New York City and they hit off well as pen pals in the 80s. And it is interesting as well because you get to know more about the cultures in both countries!

A Chinese Odyssey Part 1 - Pandora Box: is a very famous classic comedy take on the Journey to the West story starring Stephen Chow and that was the first time I actually watched it though I have known about it for quite some time already. Now that I remember again, when I get back to Melbourne I will *coughs* to watch it! hahaha

and

District 9: I find it not bad and interesting. Though some part or elements of the story are not really original. You can say that they are borrowed from this movie:

Yup.. The Fly: "Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid". A classic famous horror movie. Haha I am stretching this post even longer now! I will end it with this:

I want to play this(!!):

hahaha which I am hoping to be able to go out with my cousin(s) to play this in an hour's time!

Only managed to play a bit yesterday =(

Don't think I would forget. I got all the photos from Google Photos! And I will copy and paste it here:

I will state here that the photo(s) is/are not mine! I am not trying to get money out of this so fly off, legal vultures!! hahaha

Put a banana in your ear!!

Well i haven't finished packing my luggage and cleaning up the apartment -.-

I also realised that a few things this few days:

1. Remember me saying i like to think a lot?

Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not. Because i easily think a lot, and thus i
can be quite sentimental, if not very, at times, haha.. So, such little
things like tidying up the stuffs in my room or packing my luggage
actually trigger the memories i have in my mind whenever i come into
contact or look at a certain object that i have a memory of. And what
makes it worse? pretty much every object can do so XD

2. I apparently, tend to be too polite!

Haha i was kinda surprised when i was told of that.. as I never really
thought of it that way.. but yeah i learn that that could annoy people,
and even myself when i think of it afterwards! it's just that i never
really thought of the term for it, haha but i can be sure the source of
it.. which is:

3. I can get really indecisive at times

Yup.. really indecisive.. but i suppose the good thing is that it's not all
the time (i think? haha) so anyone reading this, if i have annoyed you
with my indecisiveness, i'm sorry about that.. i will try my best to
improve!

So this is quite a short post/update.. relating a bit to my new year's
resolutions for next year on what to improve i suppose.. can't believe
it's December already and my flight home via Singapore is like, in
about 8 more hours O.O

I better hurry up now.

Sleep! Sleep!

i have been sleeping around 4 or 5am these few days..

definitely not good.. but then again, i can actually be training to prevent jet lag when i get back to KK since it's 3hrs behind! hahaha but it's kinda too early so maybe next week for that..

so i better sleep now XD

thought of just writing this here since i haven't blogged for so long..


(Disclaimer: photos aren't mine.. got them from Google!)

PS3 and Sony Bravia!

Well that's the ad Sony Australia has come up with for their offer of free PS3 with each Sony Bravia bought, something like that..

Swot Vac is over and 1st paper (chemistry) is this coming Wednesday. Will have to buckle up and Staaaaaaaa deeeee! The whole Swot Vac was used to do assignments and there were 5 assignments due through out the week! it would have been 6 if it wasn't because Structural Analysis online test due on Thursday got postponed to the next week. 3 were due on Friday which were Strucutural Analysis Beam testing and Carport Design group project report and Engineering Practice 2 ePortfolio. I suppose i am being more detailed so that next time i can look back at this and remember it, haha!

I suppose i will upload photos of the beam testing (got 7.5/10) next time when i got the photos as i didn't bring my camera that day. Spring is coming to an end and summer is coming!

I sure miss the natural aircond wind blowing on my face..

Random Facts

Random random facts about Ronan if you're bored enough to read!

1. I'm supposed to be working on my group project
   

Well, yeah.. and how time flies when i'm not -.-

     2.  I actually like washing dishes

Yup.. i actually like washing dishes.. with a good detergent and armed with a trusty sponge and a rough sponge to eliminate those tough stains, i enjoy washing dishes!

I like the feeling of making the dishes all clean, smooth, and oil-less.. i suppose washing them with the nice cooling clean water is another reason why too!

If i have the time and nothing else to do, i won't mind washing dishes all day! So there.. at least i know have a secure backup plan on what to do if i can't get a job with my degree in the future.. haha

 Getting wet and dirty with the Reloaded Youths!

     3.   I think a lot!

Yup.. and hence this post.. because i thought of it as i was washing dishes just now.. and yup.. stuffs goes around my head from time to time.. but i suppose that's why i'm so forgetful? not big enough hard drive to store more stuffs?

The Thinker

haha well that's all the random facts for now..

 "shower i go, do assignment i try!"

Hmmmm

Hmmm.. have been slacking.. wasting time online?

Assignments being done last minute.. and being late for events that i could have made it earlier or had time for.. sleeping and waking up late..

I suppose it's getting out of control.. gotta have stronger will..

This blog lately has just been me telling myself all these yet not much effort has been taken apparently..

meanwhile..

it's been raining these few days! and winter seems to be back again because it's so cold and windy the temperature was about or below 10 degree Celcius! played English football yesterday in the cold wind and it was really windy! but it was fun since i haven't been playing for a long time and i played with my new pair of Nike Total90 shoes!


it's indoor but i suppose since i can't really get an indoor and an outdoor ones an indoor one will be more suitable for the moment.. got it for $80 from $100 after 20% one-day discount at Rebel Sport Bourke St. ..

And well it was a crazy and fun week! jamming, looking at night skies, hanging out and all-you-can-eat-yumcha with Act1v8!

not all of Act1v8 but only some la, haha

Looking at the forecast for this week it seems like it'll be more spring-like weather now.. but still gonna rain! and well i enjoy the coolness but it'll depend on when it rains.. but it's good news for Melbourne since it's raining.. and even Mount Buller extended their snow season to this sunday because even more snow appeared due to the rain and wind!

1st paper of exams is exactly a month away.. what are you gonna do now Ronan?

i suppose i'm writing this for the Ronan in a few years ahead to come back here and see this..
whether a sense of guilt or joy that follows the heart as he reads this will depend on what i'm gonna do now..

hmmmm

Again....

Time flies~

Now it's September already.. week 7 out of 12 in uni.. then Semester Final Exam and then KK!

if i do pass all subjects la.. otherwise will have to stay back to resit O.O

Well, managed to have quite a normal sleeping time and pattern when parents visited last week but how fast and easily my sleeping time and pattern changed so will try sleeping earlier now..

RONAN is BACKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK for now..

After slightly more than 2 months absent from the blog (though i still kinda check it sometimes),

i finally decided to pick up my hands and start blogging again.. why?

'cause i have decided to at least use my time wisely when i am not studying!

Well.. it is now August and unbelievably, a week to 6 months (or half a year) since i first came over to Melbourne to study! How time flies~

So what happened to Ronan?

Nothing much.. had winter break, sis visited Melbourne, cut hair, Semester 2 started, etc.

Swine Flu (H1N1), from my previous post, is now totally out of the picture in Melbourne not because the pandemic is over but i simply do not know why -.-

Posted this using a Mac computer in the library while waiting for next lecture to start and it is now!

A typical day in Melbourne

This actually happened 2 weeks ago on a Thursday morning.
Wanted to blog about it but have been busy with all the assignments due.

It was a Strike Day that day.. by National Tertiary Education Union.. saying need to increase more staff for the benefits of student, blah blah blah.. but ended up affecting the normal lives of students on that day, apparently..


Well, lecture of Engineering Practice still went on and that's a picture of the type of overhead projector they use, using videocamera instead of light to capture the image of what is gonna be projected..


And it was very foggy that day.. this picture was taken around 9.30am..
if anyone did notice the time stamped on the picture, it's because my phone was still running on Malaysian time, haha


Went into a lift inside the university and even the light of the lift was on strike??
this was how it looked like, going to the 12th floor in a dark lift for the 1st time.. thank God the lift wasn't planning on going on a strike too, haha


then on my way down on another lift whose light was not on strike,
saw this abandoned chair in the corner of the lift..



And off to the place i stay here in Melbourne which i temporary call 'home' i went because the supposedly physics lecture in the afternoon was cancelled because the lecturer joined in the strike -.-

Gonna mini-blog now....

Yup.. instead of kept waiting to write up one really long post i have decided to just write bit by bit of current status..

the download speed at home can be very fast till 150kb/sec however, the upload speed is ridiculously maximum 20kb/sec.. so slow! even upload pictures onto this blog also take ages!!

these few days getting colder.. morning till early afternoon 12-14 degree Celsius and then afterwards till night it is 7-9 degree Celcius.. but it seems like on thursday the maximum temperature will reach 17..

two assignments due this fri.. no pressure? i'm a well-experienced procrastinator so that is why, i guess.. but gotta change, gotta change..


p.s. hair getting longer. not. gonna. cut.

Finally.... an update!

Well it's almost 2 months now since i first came here. Finally celebrated having internet at my place 2 days ago. With internet available at my fingertips, i finally decided to start updating this blog.

Time flies.. as it's nearly 2 months now. I realised that time are spent if you fully use it. Like when i just arrived, the 1st week was the week before uni starts so each day was spent walking around sightseeing, taking pictures, and buy stuffs. So that one week actually went by slowly and boy was it like i was in vacation.

Then uni started. Orientation, lectures, tutorials, lab sessions, suddenly everyday just went by so easily because there is a routine. Today do this, tomorrow do that. Then time just flies.

Well, things are going well at the moment. Passed up assignments just very on time, except the recent one with 8 minutes passed due time but thankfully, still counted.

There are lots of stuffs here in Melbourne. But i guess i'll blog about it in separate posts with pictures.

What a post!

Man.. it's been so long since i've posted in this blog.. had been very lazy.. lazy to do the tag thingy.. and was kinda malas to type..

now that my laptop's being sent in to be diagnosed 'cause the speakers are already erm.. 'bao ying' in chinese and in english would just be, having some problems, and the internet line's much better now and i finally think i have the time for it as i'm using my sis' computer once again, i'll blog for a while and do the tag SOT - Some Other Time..

Today's exactly a week before i finally fly to Melbourne on my own.. it'll be the first time travelling on my own.. the thought would normally excites me, but i'm having mixed feelings about it.. one more week in KK before i go.. yeah i'm coming back by the end of the year but it'll be quite some time later.. it's this kinda period where i would stop and look around and observe even more at the people and stuffs around me.. it's this kinda period where i would appreciate more of the people and stuffs around me.. man.. this kinda feeling ain't doing me any good..

It's really still a surprising thing for me, that i'm going to Melbourne.. studying in a university that i thought i would not be going.. RMIT.. when i applied with my lousy UEC results and A-levels forecast with 2 Ds i wasn't expecting i would be accepted, unconditionally.. and it's the only university to do so.. others would require me to get average C in my a-levels (which i so easily have acquired and even slight better(haha)) or can't offer me Civil Engineering but something else.. So i dragged.. i received the offer letter on the 6th of january but i've only sent in the acceptance form slightly more than 2 weeks later.. the offer's subject to availability of place there.. i've been told that there still is.. and now visa's done, accomodation's paid, ticket's paid, stuffs bought, i'm still a bit worried.. am i really going there? am i really accepted? i'm like, waiting for a big "YOU'VE BEEN ACCEPTED! JUST COME ENROLL YOURSELF ALREADY!!" which will be obvious enough.. but i'll continue to pray.. if this is God's Will i should not worry one bit.. but just miss everything back here though, haha..

oh well.. that's it for now..

Happy Birthday, Ronan!

Yea.. someone turned 20.. the age doesn't really matter. It wasn't really blast of a birthday but what surprised me was the number of people wishing me. Facebook helped a lot with the reminder thing and i received a lot SMSes, which is good, i think. And so fast the day is over, partly because i slept till noon.

Tried onlining but Streamyx has been very very bad these few days. The line kept breaking down -.- and only now when it's after midnight the line is better. Really gotta call them and have this lingering problem fixed. It's really riddiculous since my neighbour's internet line has been fantastic all these years.

Well here's some pics of my birthday cake, just 2 candles, haha..

Gotta blur up the name since it's TradeMarked. But i suppose some will do recognise the name.


Using my mind to blow out the candles. I really did it, no kidding. I used my mind to think of blowing the candles, and then my mouth reacted and blow! So the candles got blew out, haha.

And just now at night went Salim and treated a few of my friends yamcha, which is my favourite past time (not the belanja). The pics taken are not with me here.

Well i've been tagged by my Gen2 and i suppose i'll just gotta do that later in the morning since i can't stay up any later. It's not that i can't but i'm not allowed to as i've been up till 6 in the morning twice in a row using the computer, haha..