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THE JOURNEY
of how far we came, in words of mine.

It was all in His plans for me to study in Sydney. Now that I'm here, it's up to me to shine His light.

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FLY AWAY TO SYD
on the journey to Sydney.

4 years in Sydney is an awefully long time.
Catch me before I fly away, cause I'm having the time of my life.
Friends come and go, but the close ones never part irregardless of the distance.


Friday, August 31, 2007
02:16

haha. this is so funny! jeremy got lost in the city, and required keng loon's help to bring him back to baxter. and he got a free ride from the bus driver.

there's nothing much to blog, except for the fact tht i'm running dry on fuel, and i cant seem to study today. this is bad. 3 1/2 chapters of memorising to go. and only 1 spare day left to study.

well, i took a chicken kebab at 4pm today, thinking tht it'll keep me full till 9pm. then i can have a late dinner, and study till late. apparently tht didn work. my next meal came at 2am. a whopping 10hours away. i've learnt my lesson. but, it goes to show tht kebabs are more filling than rice.

oh, james emailed all of us today saying he will be back coaching, after 2 weeks of nationals. haha. he was like "3 more weeks to go". bet he must be referring to 3 weeks ago when most of us were sick. and only 2/12 of those going for AUG appeared for trg. tsk tsk. i wasnt one of them.

i nvr knew the word 'lao hong' could be so funny.


Thursday, August 30, 2007
19:32

i just packed my room last night. you'll nvr see my table neater than this. haha.





my bed has the "you-know-you-want-to-sleep-on-me-look". the pillow cover and bedsheet i given to me by khee. i'm hoping i dont have to pay him back!! but i still love my double-sided comforter the best. so pretty!! :D






Wednesday, August 29, 2007
11:53

alright, i changed my blog skin again. as usual, i ripped it off people. but the reason why i changed my skin, even though i liked tht one was for my poor, up-to-date friends who uses morzilla. sheesh. so those morzilla users out there, if it doesn work on morzilla, tell me. BUT, tht doesn mean i'm going to change my blogskin again.

as for kengloon, i dont care if u go blind with my new design. :D


Tuesday, August 28, 2007
14:54

was going through the 05s44 photo gallery. and i downloaded a lot of pictures. will upload it during the weekend, after studying!
BUT, here's a classic picture of me.
2006 nationals semi-finals agst tjc. and there i was stunned by my opponents. didn know how to play against them. tht was a tired and clueless me. i cant believe my classmates took a photo of me!
all the unhappy times then seemed really far away now. but nevertheless, the tears i shed tht day will etch my heart forever. yupps, you guessed it. i lost tht day. my team lost tht day.
oh wells, i'm still grateful for those fantastic memories.
ENJOY.












11:03

decided to blog a bit since i'm waiting for my laundry. finally washed my bedsheets and comforter cover. i feel clean again. i just realised a have a lot of things to buy and settle down. but i'll do it slowly, when i have the money.

it's terrifying to know how one's life can be so fragile. one moment you're here, the next moment you're gone. nevertheless, i believe the Lord has plans for each and everyone of us.

back to my studying last night: i'm surprised how determined i was to study yesterday, despite the occasional chat online. studied from 730pm to 245am. the only break i had was to bathe and when i was on the webcam with my family. the video call didn really work cause i could hear my echo, making me feel really weird. and the resolution of the webcam is really poor, i cant see their faces properly. the only time we stopped talking was because my mom wanted to watch her 9pm show. sucks, cause i want to watch it too. i'm so deprived of television.

i'm guessing tht you guys want to know how packed my weekends were. hmphs, my lessons for the week ended on thursday afternoon. before my packed weekend started, i have to say, i screwed up for accounting tutorial again. guess i'm just not fated with accounting. i was late for my accounting self-assessment. had less time to do the paper. wht's more, the tutor marked my script in front of the class. and i was embarassed cause i got my o/b and c/b on the wrong side of the retained earnings t-account. faints. like wht jeremy said, i just didn study hard enough. thankfully its not graded.

off tracked a little. wht i did from thursday afternoon.
had qma project meeting to finish up the project.
went for the welcome dinner at hillsong church.
felt hungry.
headed to zellini's cafe with joy.
chat and ate till 12+.
walked back to mulwarree.
chat online with people till 5ish.
slept, and woke up at 11ish.
procastinated.
met grace, khee and wilson at east gardens at 3ish.
bumed around.
didn buy much.
headed to makansutra at sinmah restaurant.
watched chuck and larry with more than ten people at east gardens (AGAIN!)
grace and i headed to khee's and wilson's house.
watched my big fat greek wedding and this mel gibson movie (dno how to pronounce the title).
dony and dunrui came.
i felt aslept halfway and snored.
played mahjong from 5ish to 9.
if only we played money, cause i won a few games.
had a short nap.
then all of us travelled to marigold in chinatown for yumcha.
it wasnt tht fantastic. overrated.
homee.
crashed on my bed at 1pm.
slept till 6pm.
washed up, and sai called to eat out for dinner.
decided to have dinner, do groceries and come back and do work.
tht nvr came when i saw sai and heard the terrible news.
made a lousy attempt to accompany him tht night.
had tum's take away thai for dinner.
headed down to the the royal, randwick for a few drinks.
watch the liverpool and chelsea match.
not before long, i was falling asleep on my chair.
reached back at 3am.
slept till 12pm.
woke up and rushed down for training, with sharon giving me a lift to and fro.
training was tiring, probably cause i had to much beer the night before.
was made to play singles.
KILLER.
i had no stamina at all.
managed to win 2, lose 1.
headed home immediately.
bathed and rest.
headed out to church for my first hillsong service.
hillsong seemed really similar to fcbc.
had dinner at arthur's pizza at the spot.
home at 11pm.
tried to do some work, but i was too tired.
crashed out at 130am.

AND THT WAS HOW MY WEEKEND WENT.


Monday, August 27, 2007
22:47

it's been a 1/2 a week since i last blogged. my weekend was pretty packed. correction, it was really packed. not in a mood to blog now. i'm in a mood to study. aint you impressed?


Thursday, August 23, 2007
00:50

hilarious things often happen over msn.

i was just enquiring over adele and her gf over msn.
then come a random qns from her.

del: hey, do you think i like you before?

i was like wtf? haha. super random, and it scared the hell out of me.
HAHA.

now i'm wondering, wht if i had replied yes....


Wednesday, August 22, 2007
01:47

OH!
and i forgot to add the reason why i'm broke. no wonder i felt tht the entry had something missing.

i was meant to hae 50ish dollars for shopping this weekend. perhaps even more than 50. now, i'm left with less than 35 dollars. i dont even know wht i can buy. :(

i spent 40 bucks on hair products. SHIT. but it was like a necessity. no wonder my mom said tht the shampoo is really expensive. sagar was like, "stop whining. you would have bought it no matter how expensive it is. cause you want ur hair to be nice and soft."

HAHA. so helpful. i'm not hoping this will last me till november. ran out of listerine and body wash too. tht's where all my money went. sigh. and i still haven buy my intended groceries of meat and veg. need to start cooking to save.

bleahs.


01:06

was talking to desmond online the other night. pretty funny. he wished me happy birthday, knowing tht my birthday passed a long time ago. haha. i think the next yr, he'll wish me happy birthday 4 months late. oh wells. at least he did. :/ he was mentioning about me partying a lot. and i was like, where got? its only once or twice a week. and last week, it was none!!! so proud of myself being sober.

for once, i sat through the whole of my micro lecture. but it was pretty shitty, and i cheated a little. went into lecture 30mins late. first, sai and i left mulwarree late. then we saw andrew tan, my is lecturer in asia. he was telling us the situation and all.

like the lecturers in asia tht are going ahead with litigation will not receive a single cent from august 10. and tht if they pursue litigation, unsw asia will declare itself bankrupt, and go into liquidation. like wtf. how can they make such step which pushes everyone into the corner. the point of no return. and yea, apparently the school here, unsw, doesn have much liquid cash either. whtever happened to the spare cash and the rich college tht everyone thought it was. i even have some friends commenting tht its all our fault, cause the school has to paid some 80+ of us living allowance.

please look at the situation and the truth even before you start making any undesirable comments. not all of the press articles are true. sensationalism is a pretty big thing these days.

something on the lighter note,
i hear the black label from nabil's house calling me. they insisted on me drinking with them tonight. but i dont drink on tuesday. so the 1/3 black label is reserved for me till friday. haha. funny. how 2 guys cant finish a bottle of black label, and have to persuade me to go over.

i'm just ranting.
off to study.


Sunday, August 19, 2007
16:51

what a whirlwind of a week!!

this is a shoutout to people who read my blog:
PLS TAG ME!
SO THT I KNOW WHO READS MY BLOG. :D

i was sick in the beginning of the week, and i am still coughing. sigh. i really miss my mom when i'm sick. i was so desperate, i even asked her to call me immediately. looking back, it seems hilarious.

by thursday, i self declared my recovery. went to singing karaoke in the city at night. with jerm, nory, grace, rueben, andrew. met erica on the bus to the city. guess who walked her to the bus stop. haha. i met simon at capitol square. with his brother john. coincidental. we took neos together. brought back memories. -sweet

it was the first time i spent my friday night in solitude. only headed out for falafels with sagar. not bad. the time seemed to pass really fast with me doing the quiz. satisfied score. 2am, and i'm off to bed.

i had to wake up at 8 on a saturday morning. absolutely sucks!! of course, i procastinated. and i woke up at 940, when the meeting time for project is 10. well, i arrived the earliest. the project is almost done. which is a good thing. -phew hung out with yun hsiu, before we went to look for keng loon and ian in baxter college. and lunch together. and i refused to just go back home after tht. so i dragged them to think of some programmes. [so much for trying to study on saturday.] we decided on cooking dinner together at my place.

went grocery shopping, and curry and prata it was!! we took 3hrs to cook to curry and the prata. the prata was tedious, tho i did none of the cooking. the guys cooked. and we had fun making plaster prata. we only started eating at 1030. haha. i cant remember how many were at the meal. me, sagar, jerm, ian, kengloon, yunhsiu, kim, julian, shao and joy. whoa! perfect ten. they left at 3am. crazy. we could have continued till day break if someone didn remind us of the time. haha.

pouring, pouring. i hate raining days. its been raining for a week. and it will continue to do so for another week. COLD.

i was walking to training in the rain. and i thought i was smart by wearing slippers. cause my badminton shoe cant get wet! buy the time i cross the traffic junction at my place, my feet was soaked in cold water. FANTASTIC. training without coach was weird. eric permana was the coach of the day. haha.

i'm happy being sober! :D


Wednesday, August 15, 2007
18:48

shuwen is tired of everything.
shuwen wants her mommy right now.

shuwen is FINALLY homesick,
and she absolutely hates tht feeling.
:(


Monday, August 13, 2007
23:48

i finally know wht does independence and being independent mean. i gained independence and i have to be independent all at once. it wasnt easy. and i reckon, i still aint independent.

basically, it means:
-taking care of your own well-being
-not getting drunk at all, cause you dno wht will happen to you and there might not be anyone around to take care of you.
-most importantly, not to get sick. [it's terrible without my mom ): ]

when clubbing, if a guy tells you tht u're hot while dancing, its okay. but when he thinks tht just by saying tht, he can dance very closely with you, then he's disgusting and low-down.
HAHA.

i dno why i blogged about tht. probably cause i have nothing better to do.


Friday, August 10, 2007
14:55

sheesh. haven't been blogging for the past week. been really busy with work and presentations. well, there wasn't really much to talk about. except tht siew ming had her first meal in the college, sagar and i cooked pasta together, my beer conversation with sai's house mates, my micro presentation, my accounting tutorial and my mahjong session with sagar's house mates. its pretty much a lot; now tht i've listed it all out.

well, siew mind had her first college meal in school this week thanks to me. cause zong didn follow her to the capital markets lecture this week. so i asked her to join my friends and i at the break. introduced her to jeremy. tht's how they started talking about philip baxter college. looks like i'll be a regular visitor there this semester! :)

speaking of cooking, both sagar and i pretty much suck!! on tuesday, we took almost one hour just to cook a plate of pasta. and the pasta we cooked wasn't even enough for 2 person!! at least the sauce wasn't tht bad. used napoleon sauce with luncheon meat, shi'take mushrooms, and carrots. i bet nicky must be laughing at us! thank goodness the side dishes were enough to fill us up a bit!

then we headed down to sai's place for some beer. we stayed from 10 to 1. i only had 1 bottle of pure blonde. but wht amazes me is tht with some beer, we can talk from the iraq war -> nuclear weapons -> bush and politics -> australian idol -> amsterdam and drugs -> travelling -> and back to serious stuff. haha. and this is when you know tht the regular drinkers are pretty smart and intelligent. its like they know about the globe more than you do, even though they only seem to play. looks like i have to buck up! see the world a bit more, and i'll know more things.

on wednesday, i had to rush out my micro presentation. its wasn't tht bad, until i realised tht i was on the wrong path at 10ish. tht was when i was panicking. did lots of slip slop work in the end. had my transparencies printed out and all. phew. but when it came down to the actual presentation the next day, i was pretty nervous. as usual. considering the fact tht i didn have much practise before tht, i reckon i memorised my facts pretty well. but my tutor had to deduct me some marks for missing out certain points. and according to my friend , these points are not even taught till the end of the semester. CRAP. tht's 0.5 marks gone off the drain. nvm, i'll just earn it back during my test.

well, had accounting tuturial again. and i must say, the tutor has a knack of picking on me. she singled me out for the second time in as many weeks, just to answer the qns. the only difference is tht this week, i did my homework. so i know how to answer the qns. AND she said tht i have a nice handwriting. "maybe i should teach the next time". i think she's making a dig at me! HAHA.

my thursday ( national day ) was spent in a boring way. had dinner with ws, sherwin, grace, martin, khee and greg. not too bad. but it was KFC again cause i didn want pinangsia. i think i reached mulwarree at bout 10ish, and i headed straight to sagar's place. the moment i entered, his housemates asked if i wanted to play MAHJONG. they just finished playing poker, and james won all the money on the table. HA! yea, so i played mahjong, jim rummy and big 2 till 1ish. i didn even know it was so late.

went home and knocked out before 2. and as predicted, i overslept for the group meeting this morning. i think i was 20min late. going to have a pretty packed weekend ahead. till then. :)


Monday, August 06, 2007
20:47

i was too tired last night. forgot to thank those people who came down to watch me play and silently support me.

namely,
erica, together with evan;
sherwin;
weisheng.

THANK YOU. :D


Sunday, August 05, 2007
23:58

my competition has finally ended, and i heard there's a uts one at the end of the month. gee.

alright, here i am, narrating my activities for the past few days.


SATURDAY
well, friday night was a house warming party at grace's house. there were close to 30 ppl coming. well, i was quite disappointed and embarrassed tht night. BUT, moving along, we headed down to nicole's rooftop for a cold and chilly part 2. it didn last very long as we all couldn tolerate the cold. party ended at bout 2, then it was homee. :)

woke up to have brunch/lunch before heading down to school at 2ish for my game. but, it wasnt till 6ish before i played my first game. partnered andrie for B mixed doubles. pretty screwed cause i dont really know how to play mixed doubles. like the running and the placing, etc etc. well, i was still learning and thankfully andrie didn really scold me even though we lost both our matches. he even thought me how to play mixed doubles, like the shots i should take and all. haha. the day ended at like 9ish. took a lift home from shelley and sarah.

i think i was pretty tired from all the waiting. PLUS, it was so cold yesterday, almost impossible to warm up. i think my shoulders are very stiff. i take so long to warm it up each time. tht's why everytime i start playing again, i'll first have to endure some pain. shucks. :( think this problem only surfaced in jc.


SUNDAY
was meant to wake up at 930, but knowing, i dragged it till 1130. haha. washed up and ate some breakfast before going heading down to school at 1. thankfully i didn reach later, cause while walking halfway, i received a msg from sarah saying our games were starting. : well, all the walking made me warm up a lil.

we started off with C ladies doubles with sarah. didn play too well for the first match. guess i was still in the midst of warming up. lost the first set 19-21, before giving our opponents a good 'trashing'. we were more prepared for the next few matches, and i was playing quite well at tht point of time. won all our remaining matches, thus topping the group and winning the C ladies doubles. not bad for my first competition with sarah!

a convo with shelley and i:
Shelley: Shu Wen, congrats on winning the C doubles with my sister
Me: Thanks.
Shell: It was tough partnering my sister right?
Me: nah, it wasn't too bad. In fact, it went well.
Shell: No, you are supposed to say tht its tough, if not i would not have any excuse the next time i partner her.
HAHA.

following tht, partnered Arlo for C mixed doubles. we played the mixed style all the way. cause whenever we try to change over to normal doubles, somehow i'll forget how to run. i think its arlo tht makes me lost! haha. well, according to some pple, i didn even break a sweat in mixed cause it was arlo who did all the running. well, its not my fault! tht's how mixed is meant to be played. didn play too well for mixed tho. was a bit too tensed in front. missed lots of tap shots. but my net isnt too bad. HOWEVER, my service really suck like hell. shitified.

topped our group and met sarah and simon in the finals. it was so hilarious. sarah and simon were playing like a normal doubles pair. at first, arlo and i started out playing normally too. but after a few points, i was like, i cant do this. we have to revert back to mixed. and there we go. after every point simon won, he will be thanking either arlo or i (whoever gave the point away). it was more of a friendly match than a finals.

one of the rallies was such tht simon had to retrieve one of my net shots, and he fell to the ground after retrieving it. then it was left to arlo smashing an empty court with sarah defending. well, sarah returned the smash and arlo was left to finish the game with any return. guess wht? he hit it into the net. HAHA. i was like???? drop my racket on the floor and started laughing, arlo was lying flat on the ground. with simon and sarah both laughing at wht happened. its cause the rally is pretty long, and in between the exchange between arlo and simon, i could hear simon breathing so HARD. but i couldn laugh in between the match. the way simon breathed was so funny. :D

anw, arlo and i won on points. so here i am, C mixed doubles champion too. not bad on my first competition here, and after less than 2 weeks of touching the racket. :)

went for dinner with a big group of us. went to pinangsia to eat. was so full after tht. and then, they still thought of heading for some ice-cream. well, as long as i have a ride home, i dont mind. :) so off we went, to leichhardt for ice-cream at bar italia. the ice-cream was good. cracked so many jokes there! and i've officially self-invited myself to joksin's birthday party on saturday. haha. the funniest part was when sharon went to the toilet and arlo hid her wallet. we spent so much time laughing. it was awesome. :) i think sharon teared quite a bit. then we had a mini race on the roads. sharon's such a fierce driver. not bad for someone who is a month younger than me!! and i have yet to seat for my theory test. embarrassing! :/

well, it was homee for me on andrie's car. reached home at 11ish. bathed and started on my capital markets. finished it and therefore, i have the time to blog. going offline to sleep!!

oh!
chia how's now marhawk!
and manu won chelsea! :)


11:34

if only blogs are meant to be expressed my inner feelings,

sadly,
it is not meant to be, because i do not want to pick on the people around me and hurt their sensitive feelings.
moving on, i have badminton competition again today. going to get ready and go now. ciao-


Friday, August 03, 2007
14:15

guess wht? i ponned micro lecture again on tues. was planning on walking to school with sai when he told me he was too tired, not going for lecture. so off i went, walking to school alone. met up with darren, ivan and sagar. and guess wht? darren and ivan changed their micro lects without telling me. smart ass. thinking tht i'll be alone for lecture, i head to coles with sagar for groceries shopping. met debbie and geraldine there. went to eat fish and chips before heading back home. then it was badminton thereafter. i felt so hungry after trg, i had to cook easy mac to ease my hunger. : been starting to eat a lot recently.

well, at least i went for my lectures on wednesday. the day felt tiring cause of badminton. and the accounting lect was such a wimp. he went through the slides so fast, and he expects us to copy everything down. ate subway for dinner. so much for saving money. thankfully, its sagar's treat, cause he owes me some money.

it was tutorial day on thurs, and i got screwed by my accounting tutor. haha. looks like i have to work extra hard for accounting alr, which totally sucks. thank goodness i'm not majoring in accounting, i'll just faint. oh, and for my retribution of missing the micro lect, i got a to do an oral presentation next week. sheesh. not tht its tough, i'll just get over and done with it. :( more work this weekend, before i can play.

had lunch with sarah and jeremy. then i headed back to tuts and the two of them hung out. not bad. met this girl who is in the same class as me for both my tuts. name's yun hsiu, and she studied in njc before. my qma tut group seems like really fun pple? not bad, broadening my social circle again.

met jeremy after my lect, and we walked around school getting his internet fixed. then it was homee for laundry. if not, i would not have badminton clothes to wear. headed down to the roundhouse and to krc for dinner with sagar. the roundhouse was prety boring. nothing much to do, especially when u are there early? left at 1030, when jeremy called. went to eat pancakes at the rocks. it was good. :) i think i wasnt fated with drinks or people yesterday. the moment i left, people started calling me to ask where i was. sheesh. you either have one or the other. no two ways about it. maybe next week will be more interesting for me. :)

no mood to blog these few days. nothing nice to tell. maybe just for the fact tht i sort of injured my foot and tht i have competition on sat and sun. great. off to chat and watch more videos now. so far, i watched goal!:where the dream begins and a walk to remember. any recommendations?