Resume

A lot of people might agree on how fast time pass pass us by... I'm sure somewhere out there, there are some people who would do anything to cripple the wings of time, just to slow it down abit...Well, we'll leave that to technology...

Realising the time now, I'm already in my 3rd year studies of my engineering degree. To most engineering students, this moment is the perfect time to panic about industrial training. Some call it industrial attachment, some call it vacation attachment. They all mean the same thing....
UNSW requires all engineering student to perform at least 60days of industrial attachment. And most of them prefer to do it 1 shot during their summer holidays

Well, I have not done my industrial training, and considering that there is 1 more summer holiday for me before i graduate... Guess i should panic now!!!

I'm fresh to all this kind of stuff...
I know very little about securing an industrial attachment.

All I know is that I had to prepare myself for:
Resumes, Cover letters, Company Research, Interviews, Career fairs......
How troublesome....
I've spent 2 whole day working on my resume. And its still not quite complete...
Now i know how not simple it is to produce a 2page resume...
I had to assess my skills, my talents, my abilities and what i can offer...
Geez, I don't even know if i'm over-exagerrating, or if i'm understating my skills..

It's killing all my precious time....
I rather be doing something else, but i had no choice...
I have to do all this stuff as soon as possible, I had to secure an offer for industrial training before summer holiday comes...If i don't, then i'll have to graduate half a year late...

It would be great if anyone would be kind enough to help me on this matter....
Care to comment??

Cob-web days

Now that i've entered the 1st week of uni life, things are gonna come in my way.... The usual stuff: assigments, projects, homework, study, exams, quizzes....And not to mention those mundane tutorial and lecture hours....
Sigh... A typical Student's life....

So, before i go on to the 'session mood', I wanna recap what i've done in my holidays, just before i turn off my 'holiday mood' button.

1) Organised my last semester's notes and chucked it away for good... (Woohoo!!!)
2) Outings with 'day-avenue' gang. (Lissya's bunch of indo friends) (A pretty cool gang actually...super friendly...thanks liz!!!!)
3) Dota almost every night
4) Learned a few tricks about adobe photoshop and html..
5) Got to know a bunch of UNSW newbies.. (ISS work wonders....)
6) Finished FF7.. (Yes, it took me 1 whole semester to complete the game. 18weeks...)
7) Staring at rain drops for hours comtemplating at virtually nothing..(At times like this, i love rainy weather)
8) And if i'm not doing any of the above, i'm literally 'hibernating'...

Dota

FF7

UNSW Freshie

Done by Kif using Adobe Photoshop

1st day of new session

Today marks the 1st day of my new session of my uni days....
Of all days, tuesday has to be the most 'unique' day of all...
Thats coz my lecture starts at 6pm and its gonna go on till 9pm...
Happiness.... No choice but ot stay in uni until 9pm.....
And by next week, all those tutorial and lab classes will be on....
Oh yes......Welcome, 'Happy days'!!!
I can almost see the bright light at the end of the tunnel....

In the arms of death, tears are forever...
---- Guilty Gear XX reloaded

4 second fury

Recently, i found a site where they have those fast pace flash type mini games...
And the website which have em' all is www.armourgames.com

In their top games section, the '4 second fury' caught my attention.
Probably bacause it contains the no.4

Its a very good game coupled with some nice techno music..
very face-pace, 4 seconds to complete a mini game....

At 1 point, my nick was registered as the highest scorer....
But for some reason, its not there anymore...
Luckily i manage that screen....So here u go....

Junior no.3

Introducing Zhi Yin, the highly anticipated super leng lui, super smart golden jubilee scholar. (It seems like she is a huge fan of mushroom hair-style)
She has proven herself from time to time with her outstanding grades during her days in TARC penang branch. By the time she complete her diploma, she obtained a perfect grade of CGPA 4.0....Thats something really impressive!!!
She is now studying in UNSW persuing her degree in accountacy.

A little bit about her:
A very serious girl with a very nice smile. Her jokes doens't sound like a joke. Most of the time, i can't tell whether is she serious about something or is she just joking....
Another nocturnal who sleeps late almost everyday.
Loves to take photo with her small little digital camera. Her pose in every photo never changes...
And she likes to watch drama series...


Anyway,
To Zhi Yin:
i bid you good luck in your future undertaking....

Bad English

Eat shoots and leave...
Eat, shoots and leave...
(From the famous book by Lynne Truss) This shows how 2 almost similiar sentance may mean 2 totally different meaning....

Recently, my mother mailed me. And in the mail, she told me to brush up my english...
Yup, my mother, a loyal blog-reader of mine....read my blog, and thinks that i've made too many grammatical errors. My present, past and future tense are all messed up...

I have to admit, my english have been deteriorating since i went to TARC...
Probably its because everyone around me back then were not proficient with the english language. Those around me seldom speak english. Even if they do, its all broken english..
Well, I can't blame the college for my downfall, can i??
Back then, i don't read, i seldom speak, and i always use broken english...
Even until now, i seldom read, and i tend not to interact with others because i stutter whenever I speak....Yup, its my fault for not being able to maintain to my language skills....
Its very frustrating being placed in that situation......

I have to do something about it...
That is what this blog is for.... To continue writting, hoping to improve on my english....
(that is just 1 of the many reasons behind the blog set up)

Let's see....
This blog ain't gonna contribute much to my pathway of improvement....
Sigh, guess I have to take up english course soon.....
How sad......

What to do??
Communication is a major esential element of survival in this world, and considering english is the current international language....
Guess i'm left with little choice....
Have keep my eyes open for things which can help me in my english....

Needs and Wants

Everyone have needs and wants.
'Needs' to survive through the day, and 'Wants' to fulfill the purpose of their existance..
And when a 'Need' becomes a 'Want', its usually because of greed.
I want this! I want that! And i want everything else.
Human's greed can be treated as an advantage of our own.
Discover people's want, and you get to influnce and control their action

According to James K.Van Fleet, Humans have 14 basic desires or learned needs:
1) a sence of personal power... mastery over others
2) ego gratification... a need for feeling important
3) financial success... everything that money can buy
4) recognition of effort... reassurance of work and effort
5) social or group approval... acceptence by peers
6) desire to win... the need to be no.1, to be the best
7) sense of roots... belonging somewhere
8) the oppurtunity for creative expression
9) achievement of something worth while
10) new experince
11) privacy and liberty
12) sense of self-esteem, dignity and self respect
13) love in all form
14) emotional security

Exploit their personal desires, and u have the upper hand...

Junior no.2

Introducing Alex Ling, another golden jubilee scholar who has proven himself from time to time with his outstanding academic results...
A fanatic sports player from KL, Malaysia who has that intelligent bookworm look. He finds humour in almost every sentence from his mouth. According to him, he finds tremendous joy in sports, particularly volleyball, football and badminton.
After having completed his diploma in biotech form TARC, his next step is to continue his studies in UNSW.
He is now here in australia stying with me for the moment. He will be shifting out to Kuan Minn's place (another GJ scholar) when uni session starts.

Anyway,
To Alex Ling:
i bid you good luck in your future undertaking....

I pass my exams!!!

My acedemic results for the previous session are out!!!

Of all the subjects, i'm only concerned about my Thermodynamics paper....
It's the paper which i experienced a black out...

When the university have e-mailed me my results, just before i open the mail, I was really hoping that i pass my thermodynamics paper. It doens't matter if i do not get good grades for it, so as long as i pass all my papers, I'm happy with it (especially that Thermodynamics paper)...
If I fail any of my subjects, the university will cancell my scholarship, and i might have to say 'bye-bye' to UNSW and australia..

When i open the mail, the 1st subject that I was looking for is that Thermodynamics...
THANK GOD!!!! I PASS!!!! I got a credit for it. The exact numerical result that i've obained was 65 marks..

And that was enough to keep me smiling for the next few days to come...

SPCA petition against animal cruelty

2 days ago, a super leng lui, Doreen suddenly mentioned about this SPCA petition going on in malaysia. It's a petition urging the goverment to raise the penalty against animal cruelty..
This petition is gonna end around september 2006.
The link to the petition ----> Appeals to the amendments to the law protecting animals in Malaysia
Please support the petition...
Similiar to us, animals are living entity, they have life....
They have the right to live in this world too....
If u adore animals, find out more about it....
If u like animals, visit the web...
If u love animals, sign the petition...

For more info visit this web ----> SPCA

(Oh, while you are at it, why not look for my name in the petition list??)

Locked out

I picked up my junior, Alex today from the airport today...
(I'll talk about him in my next posting... another scholarship holder in UNSW)
Right after i met him, we went straight to my house. To put down his stuff in my room.... And then i showed him around the university and the neighbourhood..
(That was the boring part of this blog...)

Now this is where the fun starts...
When we got back home at around 6pm from the 'sight-seeing', we rested for a while, had a little laugh about some stuff... Minutes later, we realised that the door to my room was locked... Well, i dont usually lock my door, and i lost my door keys..... Yup, i was actually locked out from my own room.

OOoooo.....I'm panicking now. I wanted to smack the fella who did this to me. I started to think back: "Did i really lock my door?? I shouldn't have done it as i dont have the habit of locking my own door..." Then, i realised: It was Alex!!! He was the last one to come out from my room before the 'sight-seeing' trip... And that guy locked my door!!!!!

I was shaking my head at that time....gosh, what are we gonna do??
My stuff are in there, Alex's stuff is in there....and there is this little problem of hunger.
Yup, i had a small meal this lunch, and i was really hungry at that time...
So i calm myself down.....strategise on the next best move.

I suggested Alex to cook us something while Oon Peng and I try to figure out a way to force the door open...

Oh did i mention, there was this other guy with me, Oon Peng...
He suggest that we use a really hard plastic card, and swipe the door lock mechanism open...
Oh well, we spent 25mins trying to get the card into the lock slot.. And when the card is in, the door still won't budge!!!!



Plan 2....
I started to use some paperclips to pick the lock....
Having no knowledge abou pick-locking, i was aimlessly there poking the the paperclip into the keyhole... Gave up after 30mins of picklocking..



Plan 3...
Use of brute strength to bash the door open without damaging the door and the doorknob.... Not a very good idea after all.... Plan 3 skipped...

Plan 4....
Oh well, i didn't lock my window....Lets climb into to the room through the window!!!
(oh, btw, i'm staying in an apartment 1st floor...)
We gathered a table, some chairs, went out of the apartment and stacked them up outside...just so that i'm able to climb through the window....
Sad to say.... even with the chairs and tables, my room window is still to high up for anyone of us to reach...

Plan5...
Let's just call the fire brigade or some locksmith....
"Dude!!! Its 7.30pm....do u think that they will be available?? let's consider that our last resolve, k??"

Ok.....let's halt this for the moment....
Satisfy our stomach 1st... then only think of a way to settle the room problem. After all, a hungry man is an angry man...better get rid of the hunger....so we all can clear our minds, think of the next step...

So then after our dinner, the 3 of us are sitting down there.....pondering about the next best move...
Then someone suggested: "Do anyone u know who possesses a ladder??"
"Come on', we are all students here, and most of our friends are all students as well.....Why would any student need a ladder?? In fact, why would any student spend money to get a ladder.."
Although ridiculous, 3 of us called this fella, called that fella asking for a ladder...
We even though of approaching uni security depatment to get a ladder.
After 1 hour of calling, finally we got someone who has a ladder...
Grace Chong, a kind person whose house i was staying in during my 1st semester here in australia...
Well, we managed to borrow a ladder from her...
Thank god!!!

Now this is the part where the element of excitement comes in....
We hid the ladder in a garage nearby... I was there sneaking around and making sure that no one is gonna catch us doing what we are gonna do....To break into my own house...
Alex went up to the house, in the living hall and overlooking us, (just in case some cop come in and bust us, at least he can say that we live here...)
And Oon Peng, went up to get the table down....We had to stack the ladder up on the chair because the ladder alone in enough to get us to the window.

When Oon Peng came down with the table.... I had to make sure that the area is clear, to make sure that no one is looking at us, to make sure that no one will call the cops....
And when the area is clear, we quickly ran out, placed the table down to the desired location, stack the ladder up, and i ran up the ladder....
I can almost feel the adrenaline rushing in. I was really scared that some1 might call the cops....
When i reached the top of the ladder, i opened the room's window, and i pushed myself up into the room....
Right after i got into my room, i opened my door from the inside.... Suweeetttt!!!
And this Oon Peng hid the tables and the ladder in a nearby garage....
Then we took all the equipments back into my house quietly
I tell u, we were like ninjas sneaking here and there....Actually, we were more like house burglers breaking into someone's house....My house....



That was my most exciting experience in australia.....
Yup, breaking into my own house.... It's something that only happens once in a blue moon

Junior no.1

Introducing Oon Peng, another golden jubilee scholar who has proven himself from time to time with his outstanding academic results...
A natural-born leader from Penang, Malaysia who acts like a big mafia boss despite his small body size...
One who is a king-scout and a president of TARC commerce faulty (penang campus) student welfare comittee is actually coming over to UNSW to study. (Impressive eh??)
And according to him, there are countless times when girls in his college stalk him. (well well, i'm not sure if he is that famous) Anyway, ladies out there, be careful when u see this person....

That's his past.
Now he is in UNSW, Sydney, Australia currently doing his bachelor of commerce.

As a senior from the same college, there is this un-written rule which i have to oblige.... To take care of my juniors...
Its my first time meeting him this morning.
A pretty talkative fella. Loves girls, swimming and girls and leng lui and girls...
(so, be careful ladies...)

Anyway,
To Oon Peng:
i bid you good luck in your future undertaking....

Scattered files

Time....is what many regard as the essence around which life was based.
Now that i'm entering week2 of my holiday, i'm begining to feel bored....I had too much free time nowadays... Or should i say that i'm way too busy doing nothing...

During the exams, i told myself that i would clean up my computer files during the holidays. As in to categorise and organise all my scattered files....
That was what i was doing for the whole day. I didn't knew that organising my own stuff would be such a difficult task. I have files scattered all over the place... Files about my uni life, my personal life, my photos, my music files, my video files, my image, my misc documents, and some other random stuff.....
There are duplicates almost everywhere. In my C drive, in my D drive, in this folder, in that folder, there are duplicates everywhere...
And for those not so important image files, i had to resize them to a smaller size....
not to mention that i had to rename my image files and my music files to a more organised manner...

To others, i may be perceived as a messy guy, but i prefer to think that the clutter is organised in my own way.. hehe :)

PS:
May u guys find joy in every little thing in which u are doing...

A stay in the monastery

I had nothing much to do in the holidays...
I'm just not motivated to do the stuff i'm suppose to do. Stuff like cleaning organizing my computer files, and cleaning up my room...

A few days ago, a friend of mine, Yu Ang invied me to spend a night in a monastery...
Thinking that i had nothing better to do anyway, i decided to follow him....
Yup, a monastery in australia...

It was just yesterday when i spent the night there.
Its not a very big place, but somehow somehow the place projects a sense of serenity and harmony....Probably because its the layout and the design of the building. The garden there i super uber beautiful... (nupe, i did not take any pictures..)
Those living there (mostly monks) seemed content and not having any worries or whatsoever... And best of all, they are all humble people....
(don't cha wish that there are more humble ppl in this world??)

Didn't do much there, besides meditating and chanting...
Oh, i went for this dhamma talk...The subject was about the meditation and the the correct method of breathing.. Even though the speaker taught us all how to do it, i still can't seem to get the correct way of doing it...

And i learned something there...
Whatever we see and feel, is a projection of the mind.
For example, lets just say u wake up in the morning, and a bunch of birds out there are chirping out there... If u are feeling happy, u would probably think that the birds are singing for you.. However, if u are feeling angry, u would probably think that the birds are here to annoy u from your slumber sleep...
Why would anyone want to think negative thoughts when they can choose to feel positive about everything around around them??

Well, thats a brief version of my 1st stay in a monastery experience...

Another achievement...

Sometimes we ponder upon our existence and wonder what is life all about....
In times great depression, when we are down, when shitty days comes barge into our life, most of us would get angry, dissatisfied, and wish how things would go according to our liking...

Last week when i was still having my major exams, i made a decision..."Don't worry, Be happy!!!"
To be happy, no matter what kind of shit comes in my way.
(to most people: "uh huh, yea rite..... What's so hard about doing that??")

I guess i had to thank the thermo exam, the paper which i did extremely badly.
I was kinda depressed and stressed about how could i not perform considering it is an easy paper...
I was feeling down for a couple of days.
There are still other exams to worry about, but my mind was primarily focused on that particular failure...
Most of the time, there's a book in front of me, but i just ain't motivated to do my revision....

When i don't feel like doing the stuff that i'm suppose to do, i do what i do best, surf the net...Yup, the virtual world which literally houses all the information in the world.
I didn't have a purpose to surf the net. I wasn't seachin for anything in particular. I just had to get out of the exam pressure, and the internet provides the perfect hideout.
I just want to see and read stuff other than those related to my exams..
As i click here, click there, i ran across some good articles... (Most of which are derived from the philosophy of buddhism)

That tuesday night, i was recalling about what i read. I began to contemplate about my life..

That whole night, i was feeling miserable...
At one point, i began to realise that i was actually feeling miserable...Before this i was too busy feeling miserable that i didn't realise that i was actually miserable.
By the time i've realised that, i thought to myself: "Are u really that miserable?? And if i am, does that mean that i feel something?? And even if i do feel miserable, do i have to keep on feeling miserable?? Don't i have a choice to not feel miserable about myself??"
It was then when i realised that i have a choice...
Some say that life is all about the choices we make. Of course, there are those who expect us to behave in a manner, but are we suppose to live up to that expectation??
Can't we have our own choices??
After all, why be miserable if u can choose to be happy.
And i chose to be happy....27th of june was the day when i made a choice to be happy.

Sometimes a person can have millions of dollars or everything the heart apparently desires and still be unhappy...
And sometimes a person can have nothing and feel happy about himself...
Sometimes... people are already happy. The only problem is that they can't see it.
Some say that it's not about being happy, it is about realising that you are already happy.
And if u ain't feeling happy, do something about it.

Seriously, how can we maintain happiness 24/7??
no one in this world is 100% happy all the time.. and to tell you the truth, who would want to be? Thats why happiness is special. Its because is hard to accomplish and once you have it, its for a little moment… and those are the moments that shape your life.
Don't worry, be happy..

Cobwebs

The time has come for spiders to spin their webs...
The challenge now is to prevent the webs from expanding...

Let's see...I should:
1) Clean up the house
2) Organise my files
3) Read some good book(s)
4) Learn a skill from somebody



Research proves that too much free time spent on doing nothing dulls the brain...