walked to sch this afternoon. autumn is well n truly here - leaves of all shades of yellow/red/orange/brown on the trees, even more underfoot. never seen autumn like this b4. different in hk. realli nice to walk on the soft crunchy fallen leaves haha raining today. mt wellington totally hidden behind fog. if u dint noe it was there u'd think it was just grey sky.
ytd's dinner sucked. most of the comm was busy serving n got to eat only at the end of it, when there was practically no gd food left. the rice was crunchy, the green bean soup lacked water, and there was too much bandung left. there were no tablecloths n the cutlery was dirty. but the turnout was unexpectedly gd... which was why there was not enuff food. made a considerable profit, to be donated to the tassie devils (the animals, not the team). this evening: talk by contact singapore, s'posedly to promote s'pore as a future workplace. a thousand yrs in the future, sure, but no way am i gg back to work after i get my degree. the work hrs suck, the pay's worse, the govt - hmm- xxxxxx, the ppl arent tt gr8 either... this wk's almost over :D added a count-up timer: calculates the time lapsed since my last dive. look at it ticking away... 
current state: wrapped in a quilt, sitting on my bed, laptop on my knees, earphones in my ears. cold front! ting jus gave me some anzac cookies she baked. not bad at all, tho a bit too sweet. gg to charity dinner later on. the dinner i paid $20 for, n will be serving food at. hmm.
next wed is anzac day holiday n sss charity dinner. & no-prac wk! chem test later on at 2pm. hopefully the qns will be recycled frm past yr tests, like for stats. zoology prac from 3-6. then the wkend :-D tgif! [slp slp slp] this wk's been pretty hectic. 2 tests n a horrible assignment. wk 9 will be another hectic wk. prac test, lect assessment & god noes wat else. winter break cannot come any sooner wat if sch was during wkends n wkdays were break-days? guess we'd get bored of it after awhile. but it wld be a nice change. weather: still sunny n relatively warm (15-18 thereabouts). such a long dry spell tt the radio's saying sth abt doing a rain dance to induce wet weather. i sorta wish a huge thunderstorm wld arrive. have yet to see a proper downpour/storm here. miss the warm, cosy, slpy feeling one gets when a thunderstorm is raging outside & u're indoors wif a nice bk/music/bed. jus learnt tt there're q a few dormant volcanoes ard hobart itself. near mt wellington n across the bridge near rosny. wldnt it be cool if one of them sarted showing signs of eruption, after more than 200yrs? today's zoology lect was q interesting. sharks' tails enable them to thrust themselves downwards in order to catch prey, cos their mouths r ventral. research is being done in the manufacture of swimsuits to mimic shark skin/scales, hoping it'll enable swimmers to swim much faster.
i miss A lvl stats. it used to be so straightforward and, at times, fun. just spent countless hrs completing the 2nd stats project. this one's much more difficult than the 1st one. had to design an investigation and apply things like Poisson distributions to calculate probabilities n assess risks. Half the time i had no idea wat the qn was asking for. at least i'm done now. looks pretty pro, but the content is pure crap. 8 pages of weird inconclusive statements and 2 pages of Excel formulae makes for a v lengthy n boring report. time to get out of the library chem test this friday
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check out the great turtle race tt just started in costa rica. leatherbacks on their mass migration since i started diving, i've onli seen one leatherback turtle. in tioman, i think. (cf. old entries) amazing sight... which reminds me of the one dive in tioman where i saw at least 10 turtles and experienced, for the first n onli time (so far), turtle burnout. stupid stats project. who the hell cares how many weed seeds there are in a shipment of grains?
skyped wif clare, elsie, farah, lois n mj last nite for more than 2hrs. gr8 hearing their voices again! farah n lois r still gg at each other hahaha last nite reminded me of how badly i wanna go to the uk. $$$$$$$$$ also trying to get ppl to go diving in south australia wif me. specifically cage diving wif gr8 whites. each trip is abt 4 days, cos they need time to lure gr8 whites to the cages. fiji: shark reef: dive to a depth of abt 20m, where theres a platform for divers to observe sharks being fed 2m below them. tawny greys, nurse sharks, black tips, white tips, etc...
end of easter break :( dun feel like gg back to sch, yet here i am... 2 tests, 1 assignment due next wk looking fwd to winter break in july, cos tt's when JFH will be super quiet once more, with everyone home for the holidays. this easter break, there were only 4 ppl remaining in aldridge middle. super quiet! cld play loud music without fear of others complaining. mealtimes were queue-free. campus was silent. no drunkards banging on doors in the middle of the nite. pool table unused at all times. common rm unoccupied. empty driers n washing machines in laundry. no need to worry abt stolen clothes on drying lines. after returning from camp... played loads of bball. on my own, cos everyone else who wld even be remotely interested in playing were off at home celebrating easter wif their families. solitary bball is pretty therapeutic, tho. no other sound but the ball hitting the court/ hoop. and the view from the tennis/volleyball/bball court is gr8. water + hills + sky. fortunately the weather the past 3 days has been warm n sunny, so i dint have to worry abt the cold in my tshirt n shorts. went to eastlands on tues wif sham, caddie, tam n ilow. dint buy anything (was the only one who dint haha) but walked ard window shopping. loads of easter chocs on discount. chem prac later on. rates of rxns... skype session this sat wif the virtuous gang!
Camp photos are up!  cows blocking the rd  Lake St Clair  wallaby eating  Shadow Lake  Shadow Lake 2    Mt Rufus  my hiking grp  sitting on log  still sitting on log  lost slipper  bunch of us  SSS exco (spot me?)  exco Easter camp was fantastic. all the hard work totally paid off. the weather this time round was MUCH better than the first time we went. clear sky, no rain, cld actually see the summit of Mt Rufus properly! the nites were freezing tho. on the 2nd nite, the 3 of us in my tent decided we cld not possibly spend the entire nite freezing our asses off, so we snuck into the kitchen n turned on the stove for some warmth. still dint manage to catch much sleep, on acct of us first worrying tt someone wld come in n find us slping in the kitchen (not allowed, esp when we were all on the committee n setting bad examples to the other campers), n then finding ourselves still freezing indoors. ended up pulling chairs right up to the fire n slping sitting up. not at all comfy. at abt 6am vas came in n we all went out trying to watch sunrise but waited at the wrong spot n so dint catch it. first day, taught the rest how to pitch tents, had lunch, then played games. or, to be exact, the committee stood ard the diff stations watching the 3 grps playing games we'd planned for them. then had a short walk along the aboriginal walk. came back for dinner. night walk to platypus bay in pitch darkness. came back to campsite for warmth next to campfire. 2nd day: the long walk. set off at staggered times frm 10am onwards. i was supposed to be in grp A but one of the 4 of us who went on the recce trip few wks back hurt himself n cldnt take the walk, leaving onli 3 of us who actually knew the route. so i was assigned grp B. had to lead the team, being the onli one who'd walked the circuit before. loads of times the path got sorta fuzzy n hidden n i kept thinking i'd lead the grp off the path n get us all lost. but of course tt dint happen! the grp did complain some of the time n going 'are we there yet' repeatedly, but it was pretty fun, esp wif the beautiful weather. returned to camp at 4pm. ppl rested n hung ard taking pix. went to the lake n decided to test the water, since i was wearing slippers. rolled up my jeans (COLD air) n waded in. BRRR. but got used to it after awhile. got ilow n benji to get into the water as well n watched on amusedly as they slipped abt on the slippery rocks. dun ask how it happened, but one of my slippers took part in an experiment n drifted out, nvr to be seen again. saw possums stealing chicken bones, a wallaby eating, n many kookaburras laughing away. grp C saw a snake on the walk but i dint. no koalas/platypus... wanna go back there again, minus the cold.
meeting at uni at 5.45am tmr. how crazy is that! this means we'll have to leave Jane by abt 5am. lugging tents, slping bags n other stufff. can't believe the camp is so soon. seems like we've been planing this for ages, with late night meetings n tt recce camp. ytd it snowed at lake st clair and was 1 deg. mebbe i'll finally get to see real, falling snow (as opposed to the pathetic, dirty, melting white stuff in melbourne) but the time of talking using symbols using words can be likened to a deep sea diver who is swimming with a raincoat come stand a little bit closer breathe in, get a bit higher
Since i haf nth better to do rite now... got tagged by jw: I'm tagged. Each player of this game starts off by giving 6 weird things about themselves. People who get tagged need to write in a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state the rules clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. 1. i can make my knees crack really loudly. 2. I obsess about diving n am keeping count of the exact days i've gone without N2 (51 days n 20hrs). 3. I see animals/faces in the fenders of cars. 4. I absolutely cannot stand the names Helga, Eugene and Clemence, for no reason at all since i dun noe anyone with those names. I haf other names i'm prejudiced abt as welll, but these r the most hated. 5. I am fascinated by blood n gore. some ppl find tt weird. 6. i nvr sunburn I tag yy2, 480144, mei, n no-one else. |
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