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I’m heading down to Falls Creek again this weekend. This will be my third year in a row hitting Falls Creek. It’s an awesome mountain to snowboard/ski and everything. Totally pwn Mount Buller in every aspect.

Anyway, I reckon I should at least try a black trail this time (note black = expert trails) just to see how it goes. My main weakness remains with my thighs which do not have enough strength to sustain through very long trails. I’ll have to go through some hardcore muscle trainings and hope that at least by the time comes, it will give me enjoyable day or two of hardcore snowboarding. It’s gonna be soooooooo fun.

Seriously, nothing in my life currently excites me like snowboarding. Nothing. I do not even think anyone else comprehends the level of excitement I get when snowboarding. You watched Tokyo Drift ya? The part where they said, “It is like the world just disappears. No problems. Only momentum.” So applicable to me when I snowboard. Oh well, I suppose not many people around me can snowboard as well as I do anyways.

And gahhh… if only I’m a bit more flexible. Then I would have gone to work with all the ski resorts and get my fair share of snowboarding all year round.

Water pump of my car was leaking water. Need to be changed. From my initial expectation of $200 for car service, I’m facing like $600 extra for water pump, timing belt and a few other stuffs that involves engine. Since I have to take out the engine to replace the water pump, might as well.

Bahhh… Big sum of money. Labour fees in Australia really costs too much money grr.

5 years back, I started an online radio station. Following the success of mystream that time, I have decided that why not have one for Unlinked, since Unlinked at that time has a much larger memberbase. So I did, and I named it Unlinked Encore Radio Station. It was doing okay for a while. Fast forward to the eve of my leaving KL, I shut down a lot of interesting stuff Unlinked used to have.

Now 5 years later, I just went for an interview as an DJ. Surprisingly, back then DJ-ing for fun for my own radio station, has actually gave me a lot of basic knowledge of how DJ-ing is about, especially with now DJ’s equipment turning very computerized. It’s not too different from streaming back then.

Anyway, I’m asked to join some events this weekend as an observer. I don’t think I’m officially recruited yet, but it’s a good start. The boss wants me to see if I like it then they will start the training.

Life is good when things are going right…

To think that a month ago I was only at around 40, I feel tremendously proud of the number tripling.

On a side note, I need more e-commerce friends to talk about things.

I realized that I have been rather broke lately, in an indescribable way. At first I reasoned it to over-spending. But I haven’t done much also. Maybe one or two movies in a month that’s all. Then I thought perhaps I spent too much on food? Come think of it, I had been eating out daily for the past don’t know how many years, it shouldn’t suddenly strike an turbulence in my balance. And seriously lo, this has been bothering me for a very long while because I consistently struggle for more money.

And then yesterday I finally realized… OHHHHHHH. PR lo.

The big big sum are of course, paid directly by my parents. But then there are a lot of the small small sums that I did not quite take into account you know. IETLS la, then pay for transcript and letter of completion, pay to Australian Federal Police for some stupid check, pay to Engineers Australia to validate my degree, pay for Passport photos this and that… Diu, in the end my usually ngam ngam hou punya balance is like… ng ngam ng hou edi. Very sad case.

It was good that I kindda had a job, despite the shitty pay. There was a little bit of relief there. But it was taking too much of my time for too little pay, and as such I have decided to give them a month notice, so that once my bridging visa kicks in, I can look for proper jobs. Like casual jobs that pay $2k a month etc at the bare minimum. Dim zhi, a week later they said they found a replacement edi so bye bye lo. In some sense I got fired, but in other sense, I didn’t really want to continue edi la. 1 month notice is just courtesy only.

That job plus some money from Google lately, gave me quite a bit of relief. Then soon I’m moving house, there might be a headache for money again lol. So no Ying, I want but don’t want to go Falls Creek. If not snowboard snowboard snowboard suddenly think of my financial status, I really will go jump into the creek.

Thursday was one busy day. Basically I went out at 8am, came back only around 12.30am. That was like 16 hours in total being out. Not surprisingly, I’m totally drained when I came back. Like omfg-ly. Still, I got a lot done that day, and it felt awesome!

I Got A House

Yes first and most importantly, I had to rush to sign a contract with the agent so that I can secure this house in Oakleigh East. After saying that I want to move for more than half the year, I AM FINALLY MOVING WOOOT. House will be available on 26th Aug, that’s also the time I will be moving in. I like the place la, near-new, beside all the main roads, no annoying railways blocking the traffic (like my current place, sometimes take 15 mins to get from one side of the railway to the other, which usually takes like 5 seconds to cross). It’s very convenient for me to drive, and since it’s still around Monash somewhat, makes it easy for me to look for my girlfriend there and other friends too.

Then again since one of my housemates still studies in Monash, living around Monash seems to be provided from the very beginning.

I am looking forward to finally having some regular home-cook food as lunches and dinners. So yes I’m rather excited about things. Only thing that I have mixed feelings about, is the huge amount of cash flying away once we moved in. Bills and furnitures can be quite a lot. >.<

Anyway, what's most important now is that we got a house. Quite frankly, I'm sick of running around looking at houses. Most of them are overpriced, with tiny rooms, and shit locations. I'm glad that so far we only applied 3 houses, and got it on our third try. Not too bad at all ya? We kinda offered three-month rental in advanced and the agent loved the idea. So yea, you can try that next time.

Officially Graduated

On Thursday too, I went to grab my Letter of Completion. I tried requesting for one on Monday and the Student Services told me that it’s not ready. Asked me to talk to my course advisor. She, being the lazy Aussie, only sees students on Monday and Friday. Gahhh… So I emailed her, with no reply whatsoever. Instead of waiting till Friday to see her, and since I’m already in uni, I thought I would give it another try. Student Services still told me that it’s not ready, but this time the lady who handled me gave me the right direction. Talk to your faculty office.

So instead of talking to my course advisor last time like advised, I went straight to the faculty office and spoke to someone. She redirected me to another lady handling the letters, and told me that it will be ready in 10 mins. Woot! I waited around 30 mins later, and went back to Student Services again. Sure it is finally ready. Charged me $20 for a piece of letter wtf. I took my transcript and it was on such nice papers, and I got it free. =_= I also confirmed with them my graduation ceremony, the exact date etc.

So now, I am having this very grounded feeling that nothing can go wrong now because they are all confirmed. Sure when the results are out, I knew I have graduated. But somewhat my feelings were floating because, what if… what if some complications happen and *gasp*, I am not graduating? :O

My enrollment in the past have been a bit messy, especially after the course re-structuring, I’m caught in between old and new systems. I’m currently graduating with 2 credit points lesser than requirement. My current housemate, for some reason he couldn’t graduate with 2 credit points lesser, so he had to take an extra subject and graduated with 2 credit points more. So I’m not sure how things work. And although I had tripled check with my course advisor past few semesters just to make sure my enrollments are correct so that I can graduate in-time; somehow I still fear for the possibility of something going wrong.

Anyway, good to know that I can finally throw away all the unnecessary burden that I had been feeling. It has now been all confirmed. I can finally throw away all these other junks that I have been keeping with me. What student guide 2004/5/6/7/8 etc. Hardly even looked at them. And of course, course guide this and that. Bye byeee…. Bye bye Monash also… BYE BYE!

PR Progress

Did my medical check-up on the same day. Everything was okay. Results should be in my mailbox within 2 weeks. Also mailed the Australian Federal Police for a record check-up, results should be here around 2 weeks too. Since I now have my transcript and letter of completion, I can soon lodge an application for skill assessment, and I think that’s the final document that I need before I can lodge my PR.

Sure there are other things that I will still need to submit, but those can wait till later. Or if I’m mistaken let me know. Once I got things done, then I can finally switch my focus onto something else.

I think I have been a little too flexible lately. It’s almost like I’m okay to every single thing, and when the night comes and I quiet down a little, I realize all the important stuff are not quite done.

Everyone just kindda assumes that I’m very slacking now because I have graduated, have no class, doesn’t seem like I have a 9 to 5 job yet, can’t be doing anything too important any than gaming at home. Partially it’s true. But mostly not.

You see I run a gaming blog. Keeping it up to date to attract visitors are hardwork. It all comes down to reading a lot of stuff to keep yourself equipped, as well as having extensive in-game experience. It’s almost like a requirement to play my game in a very regular basis or face the competition from every other blog. Of course, having the intend to monetize the blog and make it at least a sizeable income doubles the motivation to play harder. Yes I am gaming, but no I’m in actual fact, doing something rather important and constructive in my life.

However, I like this flexibility. To be able to ignore things when I feel like it is a great feeling. It’s one of my ultimate goal for life. To not have to wake up at 7am even though I don’t feel like it. Living my life for the boss or someone else just seems to meaningless to me. I wonder if I can maintain this till forever hmmm.

Time to clean my room and rid of all the things that I had been holding up for the past 4.5 years. It’s time to make space for a new era of my life whee.

It has been a while since I last blogged. Not that I don’t have anything to say, but in amongst all my other thoughts currently, things sunk into the sea of thoughts pretty easily. Okay maybe I really don’t have anything to tell you. A lot of things gallop around my mind, but they seem rather private. And I wonder why is this need for privacy grows as I grow older hmm.

And yes, I have graduated. Results were okay, thesis was done for, and I waved Monash goodbye. I don’t even have a proper parking space now (cries at Audrey) so I find myself rather reluctant to stop by. Still, I have been visiting the uni rather often just to get rid of my old books.

Monday, I found myself immersed in a pool of students. Engineering students to be exact; as I waited outside of a lecture hall patiently for my book buyer to finish his class. And then it struck me, I no longer belong to these group of people anymore. Suddenly in this place that I spent the past 4.5 years, it felt so distant. People walking pass me were discussing about their subjects, their new lecturers, excitement for the new semester etc, I was just rather neutral and quiet sitting there waiting. I don’t share any of their excitement anymore. I don’t have a resolution for the new semester anymore. I just don’t care anymore. I’m not enrolled anymore. Then I think again, hey I don’t belong to this group of people who are working too. I’m neither. I’m in between. I’m pretty lonely.

The rest of the week went through rather quickly. I don’t particularly remember what I had been doing other than working, and watching Batman (super awesome movie btw). Fast forward to Friday, I dropped by uni to sell another book and to check my IELTS results. Like what everyone had been telling me, I passed without a problem on my first try. Not too bad. Didn’t do much preparation other than checking out the formats. 8.0 out of 9.0 overall. Okay la. I’m not too picky about getting high marks as long as I achieved what I need. Soon, moving on to applying PR — annoying documentation process that’s unavoidable.

I have also been trying to reach for a conclusion regarding my life plan. I’m torn between 2 main choices. Each with pros and cons obviously, and each leads with vastly different life path. It’s scary because I’m not quite ready to commit myself to a certain life path yet. Somehow the notion of making the wrong decision freaks me out a lot. A wrong decision for me simply means that… I don’t want to regret in the future. I don’t want to dedicate myself to a full-time job, only to look back and decided that… I wasn’t happy and I should have done something else.

In the past 4.5 years, and in the 5 years of my high school days, those are 10 years wasted. I wasn’t particularly happy. And when I think back, the days are as though a big piece of blank paper, there aren’t much worthy things to recall. University days were better in the sense that, I had at least attempted to participate in clubs and make my life more happening, which helped in the 2 years that I was in, but was really only fun in the 2nd year. So yea, how many 10 years do you think I can dedicate myself to ar?

Actually, I do think that I have an answer.

So I was researching for something so that I can write an article on my WoW blog. Gotten sufficient information, then published the article. Out of itchiness, I press next to go to the 2nd Google page for more results on this particular term that I was researching on… and WOW… My website is there.

Must be crazy for Google to include my website in the 2nd page after like 30 minutes of publishing my article. Chi sin. Still, quite a nice feeling wheee…