Journey's End

As I reached the Journey's End, I can't stop wondering what have I learned in this journey.

Things I can list so far:

To be (more) dependent on God.
My life in Melbourne is all about depending on God. Initially, after my A Levels, I plan (or not) to come to Australia for studies. But probably since I am too much of a people person (ahem), I can't bare coming to Australia alone and chickened out at the end. This time, I came with a bunch of good friends. The highest thing (treasures from God) I value during my stay outside my family are my friends. Without them, lol, I really don't know how to survive.

This semester especially, with the Final Year Project came to such a crunch time (as you guys may know), it really pushes me to seek for God's help even more. There were times I really can't see myself even completing the project, never thought of scoring it, only hope to pass it. But God really delivers. For the whole semester, I only prayed for favor. Favor from all sources. Favor from God. The most significant night was the night I cried out to God for help. As in really cry for Him in my heart. It was the turning tide of the semester. Results started to appear, and the favor just snowballs from then. Praise God for His goodness!
You can DEFINITELY balance work and play.
Ok fine, maybe not really a balance. But, my point is, amongst the play, you can definitely work. During one of the professional practice lectures, the lecturer asked this question, "If this is your working style, lift up your hands. 'I finish my work before I play.' " 85-90% of the class lift their hands up. "Ok, what about 'I can play anytime I want.' " I QUICKLY LIFTED MY HAND! WOOHOO!

But what I really meant is that, we can find joy in whatever we do. Enjoy everything we do, even if its work. I have to admit, whilst studying / doing tutorials, I really find joy in learning how to do the questions, answer them, and get the correct answer.

To learn to raid.
I only seriously raided in WoW when I arrived in Australia. Its due to the fact I got a much better internet connection, which I will miss very much when I return. To connect with guildies and with people you would probably never get to connect outside WoW, to raid together, achieve something together is just so fun. And the feeling while receiving a particular loot you crave for so long, is just so good.

To treasure Malaysia.
To be honest, I prefer Malaysia's lifestyle, and food. Not to say the lifestyle and food here not good. Its just my preference. I find that in Malaysia, there are more things to do. And things don't go closing at 5pm, including the malls. And boy, I hate the weather.

Just had a farewell sorta party just now. With so many friends gathered and finally speaking into my life, I just felt so blessed. Really really blessed. Just hearing how other people think of you (mostly good ones haha) just makes it all worth it. Who says I just stay at home play games only, never connect with anyone? These guys just proved that SO WRONG.

And the guys just got it this. The Orange Box.


It features free (forever) online gameplay of Team Fortress 2, the game which I saw in screenshots and it looks like lots of fun. And guess what, I think its like my first ever original computer game! (lols) And I actually proudly told the guys that. Thanks alot!

And when I got it, my first response was "Eh this is the 19 dollar one right??!!"
How dumb of me. I responded that way because Kuo Hao told me a friend of ours is also playing it and it only cost him 19 dollars for the game. But not sure really 19 dollars or not though. And on my CD cover, a sticker with the words "MA 15+ Restricted - Strong Violence". Haha, won't really expect church friends to get this for you right. But I love IT! AND THATS ALL THAT MATTERS!

But honestly speaking, I had a dream of them buying me iphone during the farewell. LOL. Dreams are supposed to be dreams, sweeeeet dreams.

Anyways, in about 3 hours time, I am heading to my cousin's place to place some stuffs there before heading to the airport. And I have not sleep yet! Not really sleepy though. Just came back from neighbour's place after playing a night of pudge wars! Sorta a farewell overnight gaming gathering whatever-you-want-to-call-it thing.

I shall (try) to grab some sleep before doing final packings. For your information, my flight is at 3:00pm (Melbourne) time and I will reach KLIA at 9:00pm (Malaysia) time. Will reach Melaka roughly at 11:00-12:00 midnight (Malaysia) time. Care for some mamakzzzzz? Haha. See you guys anyways.

As a aussie always say,

Cheers.

This is freaking awesome

Facebook has a language called English (Pirate). It's damn funny.


My Friends = Me Hearties
Inbox = Bottle o' Messages
Like = Arrr, This be pleasin' to me eye.
Delete = T' Davy Jones wit' it!
Wall to Wall = Spy Plank-t'-Plank

Just some of the funny stuffs you can possible find.

Damn it, wanted to post some stuffs regarding about selling my bike, but my internet just died. Damn slow now.

Next time I guess.

...

Shouldn't have blog so much crap. Look what my mum has to say.

Sadness

Tried playing Prototype. Damn nice. But 1 thing...

... it's laggy. Already set all to Low settings.

Sadness.

Dilemma

New dilemma, good dilemma.

Will be able to play Prototype by tomorrow. So now the question is, finish off Fallout 3 first, or start playing the deliciously looking Prototype?

Vs

Glimpse of Prototype:

Gaming freak. Yes? No?

I am somewhat known as a gamer, by my friends around me. Everything around me leads people to that believe. There are many examples, and I shall list them one by one.

1. Table is VERY messy. Typically, we don't have much time to clear stuffs until it is unbearable. Or can't be bothered to anyways. Common thought: If I have time to clear my table, I rather go level up/do daily quests etc.

2. Mints and gum, and their wrappers too. Not sure about the others, but I chew a lot of gum and consumes a fair amount of mint. (Refer to title background) Not sure why though, just have to have something in the mouth. Common thought: Never really thought of it, more of a reflex now.

3. Plastic bottles, used multiple times. You can clearly see this on my table, lots of them. Reused over and over again (I know its not that good), to fill water. We need to drink too. Can't be bothered to boil the water, trusting in Australian's water system, I fill them up straight from my toilet tap. No joke. Common thought: Raid is coming up, better store up a full bottle of water.

4. A laptop cooler. Typically, nobody uses it. Why would anyone need a laptop cooler anyways? To cool my laptop. Why would you need to cool your laptop anyways? So it won't overheat. Why would it overheat anyways? Because I play games. Common thought: *Touches the laptop* It's kinda hot, will probably need to switch on the aircon during winter to cool the laptop. *wears jacket in room*

5. Tissue. Lots of them. To clean the table because I eat (half the time) in front of the computer. To dispose of the gum. And nose wax, and ear wax. Common thought: Where do I dispose of the tissue? In a plastic bag. *grabs bag, throw tissue inside, puts bag on the floor*

6. Long hair, very. We normally can't be that bothered to get our hair cut either. Common thought: Ah, tomorrow I better go cut my hair. *forgets after that*

7. Wires, everywhere. Oh and messy too. Due to the gadgets, we have lots of wires wired up everywhere. And oh ya, did I mentioned we didn't really bother to un-messy them?

Saw this T-shirt during shopping. This is one of the 6 tees I bought that day. Instantly grabbed this as it says:

Me and my long hair. Cut hair in Aus is expensive. $30 for good hair cut = RM90!

Just finished Bioshock last night. Next game is Fallout 3 which I played like 45 hours already but still not yet complete. Want to finish it this time.

Games I have in mind to complete, or at least play:

• Fallout 3
• Gears of War
• Stalker
• Prototype
• Assassin's Creed
• Clive Barker's Jericho

Busy gaming days ahead!

Change in look

Yup, a slight change in look. Been using this picture for 1 year and a half now. Time to say goodbye.

Old

New

Took the pictures of the Eclipse myself. Been having lots of those during times of gaming. Hope it doesn't decrease my sperm count by too much. AIKS!

Told you.

Yo blog,

Hi again, told you I'll be back real soon.

All these typing made me wonder even more, stuff. Making me even harder to sleep, seriously.

Saw the news that Sven Goran Eriksson is the director of football for Notts County. *LAUGHS OUT LOUD* Like seriously, what THE HECK is going on? Damn farny.

Then another thing struck my mind. Lately, (these few years) I have very very few cravings for high tech electronic gadgets. My current phone, as some of you may know, SUCKS!!! BIG TIME! And yet I can still use it for one and half years. But seriously, there are times which I really want to smash this phone to bits.

Oh ya, continue my point...very very few cravings for high tech electronic gadgets, until I saw the Iphone 3GS.

Okkkaayyy, not too sure about the "Half the price" part. But it is definitely ONE MEAN MACHINE. Tested it on Chadstone the other day. Just loved it. But price factor. AUD850 (at least), which is about RM2400. OUCH. Somemore considering the fact that I am still not earning my own income, this price really outweighs my desire. Hmm, probably I should sell my 16000+ gold on WoW. Any buyers? Haha.

Friend scolded me just now after I told him what I do during these last few days in Melbourne.

"So, what did you do these few days?"
"Oh nothing much, bumming around, sleeping, play games.."
"You wanna do anything in particular before you head back?"
"Nope, not really..."
"What game you playing?"
"Bioshock."
"..."
"..."
"What la you, that game single player game, bring go home and play la..do something while you are still here. Come this weekend we go watch footie"
"Cold la!"
"Wear a few more jackets la!"
"Haha, footie ah. See how la.."

Hmm, footie match. Interesting. Don't mind tho. My friend say there's a match this Friday between Carlton and Collingwood, and an expected 90,000 crowd. Mind blowing stuff.

Okla, enough for this post. Going to grab some sleep before heading to city tomorrow. Sending Jason off to his friend's place in the city. Will be needing those sleep.

See ya blog.

Where to start?

Dear blog,

How are you? Sorry for the late reply. Hope you are doing well here. I am not doing too bad myself, heading back to my homeland soon on the 31st of July. But well, that is the immediate step, but what next? I have no idea really.

WoW account expires tomorrow. And I don't plan to top it up for quite some time, or maybe indefinitely. My Ulduar 25 guild, Versus, disbanded some time last week. Kinda sad though, they were really nice people there. Nowhere to head to, and even if I join a new guild, I would have to start from scratch. And plus I don't know whether I will have the time or the suitable connection to play again. Hence, I decided to stop.

Jason came to Melbourne for holiday. 3 weeks he said. Did lots of shopping during these time. The most prominent buy being my first ever skinny jeans, which created a mini uproar on the comments page.
It costs a whooping 90AUD. But I was surprised at myself when I didn't hesitate much prior to it's purchase. Somehow I knew that I would have to purchase 1 someday. And so far, I did not regret that decision. Kinda comfy too.

Oh ya blog, did I mention that I got my results already? It looked like this:

Not really what I hoped for, but at least I passed them. But the only lame thing is that our marks for the project (that I worked so much on - refer to previous posts) is being withheld by the university. We emailed our supervisor but nothing much can be done by him.


Well, at least he tried to help, and he said sorry. Will probably head over to the uni admin office soon to clarify this matter. So lame.

Just had my last Urban Life session before I head back to Malaysia. They are sad for the fact that I have to leave, but I guess they understand my decision. Well, I am sad too. But I have already instill in my heart that life is full of farewells. Most importantly (which sometimes I struggle to do, I admit) is to remember each other and keep in touch.

Will probably have the photos we took soon and by then I can post them up.

Got my E-tickets today, finally. But kinda ridiculous though, only 20 kilograms of stuff I can bring back. Asked Mum to request the agent to acquire more, hope it can be approved as I am a student (still) heading home.

So, not much of WoW left for me. What have I been doing? You probably asked that. Just went to Chadstone to shop (for like the 2nd time in Melbourne). Went to Jay-Jays and bought like 6 tees, 4 of them which I would like to give away. And all of them have catchy quotes, quotes which I hand-picked and dedicated to the person I want to give that particular tee to. Nothing much in Chadstone in my opinion, although it boasts to be the largest shopping mall in Australia, it is only (I would dare say) the size of Sunway Pyramid. Sad case. Haha.

And the suckiest thing is (till this day) that the whole shopping mall closes at 5pm. *LAUGH OUT LOUD*

Ok, besides shopping, done what a usual bummer would do when he er...bums. Watching series, playing single-player computer games. Got a bunch of computer games from my neighbour, but thought I should start with this awards-winning game, Bioshock.

But I have to say, IT IS FREAKING AWESOME!
Bioshock, SYOK! And for the first time, after quite some time, I can't get enough of this game and I am proud to say that I will be finishing this game!

Been watching 24 Season 7 and True Blood.
Yet again, Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) is FRAKKING (Battlestar nerds would know this) awesome!!!

True Blood on the other hand, is kinda slow paced, but it is getting better and interesting.

Oh and ya, Mr Yeah has a blog now. Which kinda surprised me at first, because normally he don't care about blogs. But now come to think of it, if I were him, I would start one as well. Sometimes, if not all the time, typing what is in your mind is actually very liberating, like how I am feeling now. And most of the time, comments excites the author. EXCEPT FOR MR YONG LIM. He hates people spamming his cbox (the chatbox on your right). I mean...WTH?! If people spam my cbox, I would be so happy, knowing someone somewhere is reading and commenting on what I think. But then again, I guess once you achieved success, your desires/objectives/aim (whatever you want to put it) changes as well.

(Puts Mr Yeah's blog link on this blog)

It has been a long long time since I made such a long post. The last one I remembered being the time I was feeling lonely prior to my arrival at Melbourne. And probably the time I had my panic attack starting of this semester. Looking back at those times, God has really been pouring His blessings onto me. Thank You.

K then blog, till next time. Take care. I will be visiting again very soon, even more since WoW going to be expiring soon.

Hmm.

Initially, this blog was created to report stuffs I do in Melbourne back to the people back home who actually reads it.

But now, the news is Official: I am going back home to Malaysia at the 31st of July!

And so, probably won't need this blog anymore. Unless I have a sudden deep thought to share. Highly doubt it though.

Results will be out on the 17th. That is like 1 week away. Can't really be bothered though. Haha.

Meh, I seem to run out of things to say. -___-

Will only post when i do have them. Ciao.