So.. I'm on a week's break from uni.. thought i'd drop in and say a few words before i dissapear again haha..
Life in Monash is not too bad.. making some friends while serving in the CF.. still pretty frustrated that Monash makes us do everything ourselves.. like download our articles and expect us to present it in class without telling us.. everything has to be done independantly.. i dont even know why we even have lecturers and tutors to teach us in the first place when they dont tell us anything.. "Oh u can get everything online", they say.. it makes it more irritating when u pay about RM 13 K ++ PER semester and u get this !@#$! kind of treatment from them.. what's worse is that some of my lecturers cannot speak english properly.. "relevant" becomes "lelevont" and "correlation" becomes "colllelllation"... half the time I'm trying to figure out what my lecturers are even trying to say.. let alone understand the subject.. my statistics lecturer does not know how to use the mike.. so nobody can hear her.. my management lecturer wants us to give her a good review so that "Monash will look good".. swt!
still among all my complaints... Monash is still ok.. the facilities are awesome.. toilets smell like perfume... If the weather was colder I would say it feels like an Australian campus indeed.. they are quite a handful of international students too..
recently i had to rush an assignment last minute.. (yes typical me).. slept at 4am the night before.. and passed it up 4pm the next day.. so i'm trying to finish some assignments this week.. hopefully.. am also fasting MSN, TV and facebook.. so far i've managed to fast MSN and TV... but.... succumbed..... to...... FACEBOOK! sigh.. mainly due to curiousity, like people tagging my photo's or adding stuff or events.. lol!
besides this, i've stopped my chinese lessons.. mainly cuz nobody at home speaks chinese, so it's really quite sad.. i'm not practicing what i learn.. and my teacher graded me an "extremely limited user".. which is sad.. so there goes my chinese lessons for the time being..
CF has been great... been serving quite a lot already, recently had to worship lead.. and i'm only in my.. fourth week?.. we had an outing the other day in bukit cahaya (shah alam) and till now my legs hurt like crazy.. ouch..
so far my plans are.. not much.. besides survive uni life.. i'm in the midts of cleaning my room.. which is hard trust me... cuz my room used to be my family's library.. which means piles and piles of books.. and passed down from my sister, to me, to my younger sister.. books from standard 1.. till secondary, till college, till university books.. all in my room!! so yes i've packed so far about more than 8 boxes of stuff and still my room looks like it's been bombed!
besides that.. most of my time has been doing house chores lately.. cuz my family got a doggie.. a little beagle which is really destructive.. so it means cleaning up it's poo.. feeding.. bathing etc etc.. not to mention my other household pets (birds, fish etc).. it's good cuz i'm home alone sometimes during the day so can play with doggie ;)
i do plan to go for sunway cf camp! mainly cuz my pastor is speaking (yay pst shaw ming!).. oh ya.. just to let some of u know i've left my church in nilai.. (good ol' semarak revival centre) which i've been attending for the past.. 8 years? so i'm now attending a house church in Subang.. which is great, I love the feeling of a house church (bond and food!)
so... hmm... that's about it for my life now.. quite sad cuz some people who were close to me are all away... (daniel-UK, tim-Aust, chris-Aust) and other people who are busy or non-contactable.. and other people who would be leaving.. so quite sad la..
recently i've joined a band.. which is kind of fun cuz i can express myself.. am using my electric guitar more now.. which is good cuz it was rotting! haha.. have perfomed a bit.. brushing up on some skills while still having to learn lots.. and also training to help out in a youth alpha program which some of us are gonna start in Monash...
sometimes i feel like life would be better if i was in a relationship.. then i keep reminding myself about my vow till 21.. it's hard but.. pressing on! i guess my experiance in ywam (youth with a mission) still keeps me going when i feel down.. looking back at my notes and experiance gives me the extra boost to keep me going.. and I thank God for friends who STILL contact me and encourage me (though it's getting fewer!) haha.
i guess that's about as much as i can think of for now.. am looking forward to going to India in July.. for a children in prayer conference.. meeting up with some of my friends which i met in New York is pretty exciting!
but right now.. it's back to the books...
take care u all
japh
