I have internet from my rm FINALLY!!! got my student ID ytd, tgt with my acct name and password. after the last lecture, headed home to try to get my com set up... spent roughly 2 hrs trying diff permutations of configs in an attempt to trick the com to get an internet connection. cldn't follow the given instructions cos they were for windows n mine is a mac. asked the office for help. told me to call uni helpdesk. called the given no and was told to ask the office! so back to the office, who called the same no. and finally told me to bring my apple to the uni the next day for the ppl there to take a look. !!!!! lug my notebk all the way to the uni (30mins WALK downhill) n back (UPHILL)!? no f-ing way! so... asked one of the guys to see if he cld help. n here i am, online!!! yay. no need to take the com all the way to the uni :) lectures started properly ytd. v boring stuff, really. it's not v diff from JC, cos all the lect notes r printed for us, n lects even recorded for us to download online, which basically means we dun need to go for lects. tuts r entirely up to us, not at all compulsory. onli prac sessions r compulsory. bks r costing a bomb. havent bot much yet, but i've seen the prices. units i'm taking this sem: bio of plants, bio of animals, chem1A, and data handling&stats1. so far, fairly Alevel stuff. onli prob is my lects r all over the place: life sci bldg, physics bldg, arts bldg, chem bldg, socialscience bldg... dun ask me why bio is in the arts building. meeting so many new ppl tt i cant rmb most of their names (n so just call them 'hey'), wat they're studying, where they're from, how long they've been here, etc... nth much to do here. quite boring, actually, unless u luv drinking/clubbing/smoking. ytd after dinner, frm abt 7-9.30, 4 of us did nth but play pool and cards with occasional glances at the tv. if this keeps up (plus wkly 1.5 hr laundry sessions to play even more) i'll soon be a pro at pool hahaha
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reached Hobart this morning. was picked up at the airport (which is tiny!) & taken to my hall of residence. met some ppl, had lunch wif them, then went to unpack stuff. now at central hobart, having wandered ard looking at the sights for quite some time. it's supposedly 21 degrees now, but it's as hot as sg & v v sunny. cloudless as well. i have yet to explore the uni, tho i did pass by just now... ytd i went to bondi beach in sydney & it's GORGEOUS. to think i'd found phuket beaches beautiful! bondi was WAY more breathtaking. on the bus trip to the beach itself, we sorta went up & over a hill, & from the v top of the hill one cld get an awesome view of the sea, such tt it looked like it was all sea & sky, no buildings to block any view. PROMISE i'll post pix, but it's timetaking & i'll wait till i get the internet set up in my rm b4 i do it. in an internet cafe rite now. i've spent these past few wks in more internet cafes than i have in my past 18 yrs of life :-p more updates soon!
hello ppl!!! i'm in sydney rite now. 'tis a beautiful place! lots of old buildings & castle-like architecture. will post pix soon. Phuket pix, as well. was last here abt 8-9 yrs ago, so i have no recollection of anything. i'm staying with my mom's fren's family. since they've all got work, i've been left to my own devices. been wandering around the city, hopping on public transport whenever i dun feel like walking anymore, & taking loads of random photos. just took the ferry to darling harbour, but i dint pay anything to visit the usual tourist attractions like the Aquarium/wildlife place cos they're v ex. everything is v ex here. i have no idea wat this (using the internet at some huge internet cafe) is costing me, but it'll definitely not be the 60baht/hour rate i got in phuket... next stop: Hobart. tmr 8.35am flight. terribly early! tt will make it my 3rd flight in 5 days. total of 1.5+8+1.5 = 11 hrs spent in the air, many more in airports. speaking of which, the singapore airport is indeed better than some. better than the phuket & sydney ones, at least. larger, spacier, cleaner, brighter. but i still prefer the hk one. & there're heaps of cantonese here. mostly from hk, i think. i've met more cantonese speakers in my 2 days here than i have in singapore, seriously. u can hear ppl speaking in cantonese (most hk-ers are v loud, so they're not hard to 'spot') practically everywhere, not just in chinatown. the weatehr here is gr8. sunny but not hot cos there's a wind & the temp's not as high as in sgp. at least, it feels cooler. the flight to sydney was interesting. it was like a tour, with the captain occasionally pointing stuff out to us. i saw: an active volcano spouting black smoke (cld spot it from the air - a grey patch amidst the snow-white clouds); ayers rock; a huge expanse of desert in central australia; the sunset. the plane was full of arabs, cos i was flying gulf air & the flight originated from bahrain. the arab children are v beautiful... but there seems to be considerably fewer beautiful ADULT arabs, wonder why? the little children i saw on board the plane (& there were many) had enormous, dark eyes, long lashes & thick curly hair, such tt even the boys looked like girls. mebbe their beauty diminishes with age, at least for most of them. haha dinner was served at 12pm singapore time, and breakfast at 4pm sg time. prob cos it was to fit wif the bahrain time zone, or sth. and i'm finally a DIVEMASTER!!! 67 dives now. 33 to a hundred. i hope to get to 100 by the end of this yr. i shall make tt my RESOLUTION for this yr.who wants to sponsor me? i plan to travel up the coast of australia during the hols so i can dive the GBR to my heart's content, and accumulate enough nitrogen to last me...abt a wk, tops. despite all the diving i did in phuket (onli one dry day in those 2 wks), i'm alr suffering from nitrogen-withdrawal. & my last dive was onli on saturday. tt's 4 days ago. 4 days too long! can't believe i'm so near the GBR (relatively speaking) & yet so far!!! my dive gear's gonna be restored to me in abt 7 wks time, if nothing happens to it... it's been singpost-ed to tasmania cos excess baggage costs &43.25 per kg at changi!!! so i singpost-ed some of my stuff (by ship) to save costs. if i'd paid excess baggage for all my stuff, i'd have had to spend enuff for another ticket to australia! fortunately, jetstar charges $10 per kg, not 40 plus.
more than one week into the course and i'm almost done!!!!!! all the knowledge reviews completed, all 8 exams done, OW dives done, all skills finished, 400m swim + 800m snorkel swim + rescue assessment + tired diver tow + 15min treading water also over... left: mapping project, AOW dives (which i'm gonna start tmr, with the new student) and ... payment! 2 more dives till the big 60. by the time i'm done i'll have at least 62 :-D [dun worri, yy2, u'll soon catch up. serious.] water this morning was FREEZING. it felt like ice-cold, at least, even tho my watch read 27 degrees. i think there's sth wrong with the temp sensors. always 27 degrees. afternoon, led the AOW student on a scuba tune-up and demonstrated some skills. skill demonstrations r surprisingly fun - u get to do everyth super slowly, with big gestures & exaggerated actions just came to terms with the fact tt when i return on sun nite, i'm not gonna have much time to pack the stuff for australia. tt's why it's clled last-minute, i guess. i'll be a zombie, stepping off the plane, getting home, telling everyone abt the trip & showing pix, then stuffing clothes & dive stuff haphazardly into enormous bags. mebbe i'll haf to bring my dirty laundry to australia, since i doubt if my clothes will dry overnite... now i shall head for dinner. the food here is fantastic. seriously, i dunno why ppl keep claiming sg to be food paradise. as for tv, i'm usually too bushed to watch any. tt's why when yy2 keeps asking me abt the sg-thailand match, i'm like, huh? wat match? my brain's saltwater-logged. my hair's crusty from salt cos i haven't bathed yet. signing off now. hafta pay alot, i think. for the internet time... |
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