My Devious Plan

It is autumn. Almost winter. The premature cold pinch in the air forces shivering bodies to seek the shelter of thick hoodies, sweatpants and other warm bodies. Limbs flail around in strange dance-like movements to increase the heat within bodies. But it is not my fight, because I have a plan.

A devious plan.

"Mom, I'll wash the dishes today." The bait is thrown and the prize is caught. When I turn on the tap, the icy shower further numbed my fingers. However, patience is a virtue. Dabbing the cleaning sponge with some soap, I await the magic as I hold the first dirty dish under the stream of water.

Oh, the sheer pleasure when a gentle heat washes over my hands and carries the cold down the drain. I wash every dish with care and detail, lingering longer than necessary for a mere rinse, savouring the heat that radiates from my hands and spreads through my body. Around me cold humans complain and whine about the unforgiving forces of nature, but I keep my peace, focused on channelling energy to my core.

Alas, all that is good must come to an end. There is no more dirty kitchenware to wash. As I cast one last look at the sink, I smile, secure with the knowledge of my own battle plan.

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Cheers!
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Don't. Kill. Lions. (or any other animals for that matter)

My recent Math lecture lead to the composition of this poem : 


The lion sat atop her head,
Sleeping sweet never to wake.
Its glorious mantle glistened groomed,
Unaware of its passed doom.
Its claws were filed, its teeth shone bright,
Very pretty in the light.
Behold the gems in its proud crown,
Frames the fright in frozen frown.
The rare person will hear its sighs,
For open plains and blue skies.
The frozen snarl, a limpid tail,
Reminders of a hunt's tale.
The lion sat atop her head,
One day it will also fade.


This was inspired by some "traditional headgear" that I thought I saw in the newspaper. At the awkward angle that I was reading it, the dead lion looked real enough, but when I consulted the same paper a few hours later, it turned out to be a plastic mask. >.< Thank goodness. Nonetheless, I hope people will be more aware that they should stop killing animals to wear them. They are part of our ecosystem. Animals may be animals, but they have feelings too.
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Recently, I've discovered...

...that it is harder for me to communicate with people outside my faculty with regards to whatever I am learning. (what a mouthful of words). I go around spouting nonsensical jargon about the awesome things and super-awesome friends I have discovered in uni and my poor dad stares at me blankly.

I'm not being an elitist making feeble attempts to shun the people around me. I just get so caught up with whatever I'm studying right now. Besides that, hanging around people who are learning the exact same things as you, hence picking up the exact same lingo, further discourages the use of layman terms regarding our subjects. Sitting around, conversing with people about the subject, absorbing information and using it so that it gets further ingrained in my mind; this is a situation that invariably causes me to start talking about gcc and linux and bios and while loops even outside of my learning environment. Things that people who are not interested in coding may not understand anything about. And I gush on about it like a waterfall because it's just all so insane in my blown mind.

Most days, I do try to talk about everything so that other people may understand me. Being the person I am, the only real way to do that is to avoid talking about my course at all costs. When I am passionate about something, I do end up losing all reason, and that includes talking about things that I've learnt as well as the insufferable compiling errors that I keeping getting (must remember to always identify variables and try not to get too excited when my simple program works).

However, the best upside about my course is that we have one heck of a tight community within the faculty. It's the first time I've seen so many nice computer nerds congregated in one place! Uni really is full of awesome people. =D

Cheers!
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University...

...is a wonderland bursting with exciting, fun experiences, until the burdens of assignments and assessments threaten to crush you under its weight. There exists a sense of amazement at the mass collection of people who share the same interests within the same faculty. Uni is the place where the longest friendships are often made and best friends spring up from the most uncanny of places.

Also, uni is the place of career promotions from super-awesome-fun companies like Google and Atlassian. Speaking of which, I managed to get my hands on this super-awesome android doll from Google, much to the consternation and envy of many of my peers.

Booyah! This android doll is mine and mine to keep!

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A quick update

MY HSC IS OVER!!!!!

*drops down and sleeps*

I'll do a better update...soon....once I regain my stamina and energy.

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Too Much Food

Here's what I had for my  homemade vegetarian dinner today. I'm only glad this doesn't happen so often. One day I will go "pop" and that will be the end of me.

Appetizer: Salad made of rocket leaves, bococcini cheese, fried haloumi cheese and mushrooms seasoned with olive oil and lemon juice.

Main Course:
First Dish: Pizza made of tomato base, mushrooms, onions, basil leaves, half eggplant and half pineapple.

Second Dish: Fried eggplant with chilly base.

Third Dish: Angel hair pasta with olive oil, mozzarella cheese and basil leaves, and bottled tomato sauce cooked with onions, garlic, zucchini and mushrooms.

Dessert: Pulut hitam (otherwise known as glutinous black rice) with mango and lychee.

This is only half of those Chinese ten course wedding dinners I've eaten at but it feels like so much more. I should have just taken bite sizes out of each course but it just tasted too yummy. Greediness... *Groans* Who needs meat when vegetarian dishes are cooked like this? And I used to be such a meat lover.

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My Happiness(?) comes in so many forms...

Today, I logged onto Facebook and did the cursory accepting of gifts and returning them for my various applications. Very unremarkable, but...

Facebook tends to sort my friends through their networking groups and I've never really paid attention to them before. Out of idle curiosity I decided to check out the list of networks. Leaping out of the page at me was a single entry for "UTS". The only UTS I could think of was University of Technology, Sydney. I don't remember having any Australian-made friends going to UTS, hence my curiosity started to build up: who on earth could this friend be? I looked at the name and stared. Excitement and happiness peaked. OMG it's a guy from Malaysia!!! It's one of my Malaysian friends! There's a Malaysian person I know that is currently existing near me!!

It's probably just me getting happy for nothing because I don't even know that guy very well, but the prospect of one of my M'sian friends existing NEAR me was just so exciting! Not that we're going to meet up or anything but it's just...WOW! So cool! *grins from ear to ear* Since most Malaysian people don't tend to move into Sydney, my hopes of having any M'sian friends near me had been pretty dim. Seeing this listing was like eating peppermint ice cream - refreshing, chilly (in a good way) and absolutely AWESOME.

And even though my reaction is slightly delayed (universities are already in their last terms) I feel extremely happy that the world is so small. It gives me the reassurance that I'll always be able to meet up with my good friends no matter how far away they may once seem. Here's to keeping the world small!

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