Meal Especially for Yee Enn

Tomorrow is Yee Enn's 20th birthday. But I will not be at home tomorrow night due to Zion Leaders Meeting. So, I purposely asked Yee Enn to move in tonight and cooked dinner for him. What did I cook? "Smiling" Pizza and tang yuan. Made it especially for him. Sylvia helped out too!

In the process of preparing











Made pizza before going into the oven

Pizza came out from oven

Yee Enn enjoying his meal!

Last but not least, happy birthday to Yee Enn!! You are one year older, so be more mature and responsible, ok?? Looking forward to have a great semester with you as a housemate and good friend! Must study hard yea this sem!

First Day of Second Semester

Today is the first day of my year two second semester. But I am still currently in the holiday mood. I am going to be very busy this semester. Busy with John Curtin Leadership Academy (JCLA)Module Lessons (3 hours every Thursday throughout the semester), JCLA Fundraising project, responsibility of a core member, as a student with 24 contact hours per week, and maybe taking a part time job as well.

JCLA Fundraising Project is a project where three of us - Radoman, Michael and me in a group will be meeting three times per week. In this project, we need to fundraise money by organising two sausage sizzles and asking for sponsorships. With this money, we will be able to print brochures of Royal Flying Doctor Service(RFDS-an organisation of flying doctor services bringing patients from rural areas to the general hospital in Perth city). We will be distributing the printed brochures in various places like city, universities and shops. All of these have to be done in 12 weeks aligned with the tuition week.

This semester, I am taking four units - Thermodynamics, Process Heat Transfer, Process System Analysis and Chemistry 102 (my last semester chemistry in my degree course and will be learning organic and physical chemistry). I just finished my two lectures - Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer today. Thermodynamics is taught by Professor Ming Ang - our lecturer for Process Principles last semester. What is thermodynamics? No idea. But thermo = heat, dynamics = movement. I reckon should be transfer of heat. Heat transfer is supposed to be taught by our last semester lecturer - Dr Nicoleta, but she is on her maternity leave. So, this unit is taken over by two new lecturers - Dr Rupa Vuthaluru and Gordon Ingram. I think Dr Rupa is a Malaysian Indian from what I see as her appearance. This lecturer has very soft voice, so next time whenever her class I need to sit in the first row in order to really listen clearly of what she is talking.

As for the core member, I will be busy with two music practices per week - one for cell group and one for church. Basically core members are the ones that deal with the transport, games, worship team, prayer, sharing of God's words, and refreshments for every week. I will be in charge of the prayer this semester. Last Friday was our first cell for this semester (before that we had winter combined cell). I was supposed to play keyboard in the cell group, but they forgot to bring it over. So, I had to take on the worship leading. But problem is the songs - One Way, from the inside out, and everlasting were chosen by Diana and I am not really familiar with the last two songs. So, I was stucked for the "from the inside out". I could not remember how to sing. But luckily, my cell group leader started singing and I could continue after that. When I finished doing the worship leading, I really felt very bad. Not only I could not sing well, but also could not lead well. Even the visitors also can sense lost of direction. It was my second time of leading that night. I felt myself doing very badly but my other core members' encouragement makes me feel better. So, this semester, I will be working more on worship leading, prayer and keyboard playing. Remember I said I am afraid of praying in front of so many people? In the cell group for this semester, we were re~distributed. I did not pray for God to put me with who and who, but praying that God put me in a cell which can help me grow more. I guess God really want me to grow by being able to pray in public and here comes the prayer "committee".

I will definitely need to work hard for this semester. Let's gambatte together!!

John Curtin Leadership Academy 4-Days Workshop

Hey, the owner of this blog will be away from 23rd to 26th of July. I'll be going to the John Curtin Leadership Academy workshop. It is a four days workshop held in The Vines Resort. Basically, this is the timetable that have been planned out for the workshop.


23rd July (Day 1)
9.30am Arrive at Curtin Building 599 (Curtin Volunteer hub)
10.00am Leave for The Vines Resort from Curtin University
11.00am Arrive at The Vines and settle in.
12.30pm Lunch (Sian White - Curtin Volunteers President)
2.00pm Welcome and introductions, outline of program,
Introductory activities and icebreakers
2.30pm Overview and goal setting/objective setting

• Thinking big. (Leads on from Success stories)
• Talk about Fundraising
• What do you hope to achieve by being here?
• What do you hope to achieve for your club by being here?
• Where do you want to be for your advanced camp

3.30pm Self Awareness Instrument - Personality Profile (Myers Briggs)
- Discussion of results and meaning

5.00pm Break

6.00pm Dinner

7.30pm Leadership Olympics

9.30pm Free time

24th July (Day 2)

7:30am Spa or Other Activity
8.30am "Fundraising is more than a sausage sizzle"

9.30am Ice Cream Game/Social Justice Experiment

11.00am Public Speaking Exercise

11.30am Break
12.00pm Lunch
1.00pm GQM
2.30pm What do I have to offer?
· Increasing self awareness (Head, Heart, Hands)
· Playing to your strengths and the strengths of your team
· Myer’s Biggs results recap.
3.30pm Team Challenge/ Learning Activity

4.30pm Team Roles Assessment/ Application
5.30pm Break
6.00pm Dinner
8.00pm Movie
9.30pm Free time

25th July (Day 3)

7.30am Breakfast: Turning $100 into $5000 – with Doug Paling: Head of leading Foodbank in Australia.
8.30am Reflection
10.00am Team challenge
· Focus on trust, and sustainability training.
11.00am Styles of leadership:
· Leadership styles/ Personal Preferences
· Models of leadership
· Divide into groups – snowflakes competition
· Reference Movie
12.30pm Lunch
1.30pm Introduction to Planning
· One car for fundraising
· One car for sustainability in club, society, etc
2.30pm Break – Give them a chance to plan their fundraising
· Mentor offer advice, help. But they shouldn’t tell them what to do.
6.00pm Dinner (Guides speak about their experiences)
8.00pm Formal end the Workshop then introduction to the next step of Action Planning for the Fundraiser Project.

26th July (Day 4)

7.30am Breakfast
8.30am Swimming/Spa or other Morning Activity
9.30am Project Management Brief
· Project Brief
· WBS
· Tuckman Summary
10.30am Balloon Team Building
11.00am Project Management Brief
· Gantt Chart
· Self Time Management

12.00pm Lunch

1.00am Building steps to your future career
· Soft skill discussion
· Showing your soft skills in your resume(Need Resume)
· Strategies for building on existing skills
· Identifying gaps in skill set
· Developing strategies for addressing gaps
· Module talk

2.00pm Where do you want to be at the end of semester?
· Implications for self (What will I do?)
· Implications for your organisation (What can we do?)
· Specific skills to develop / practice
3.00pm Wrap-up / evaluation / feedback / Did we achieve our objectives?
4.00pm Return to Curtin on Bus

Basically, these are the activities that we are going to do in the four days. What scares me is that all of the participants going to be those "ang mos". But I'll definitely need to overcome my weakness which is to social with them and be friends with them under stressful conditions. Pray for me for good outcomes yea!

Fremantle Trip

Today was my first time to Fremantle. I went together with Susan. Vata had to stay back to study for her supp while Kent Onn stayed back with her. This was my first time and Susan's as well. So, basically, is just like going to somewhere where we don't even know what or where to go. But luckily, in the train I met an uncle, who is Pastor Patrick's (Zion's pastor) father-in-law. I did not know him at first. But after chatting then I know who he is. He was with his family that time, with two active sons. Well, in the train, I saw the difference on how an Asian and an Aussie bring up their kids. Asians tend to be more protective. They do not let their children do things which might harm themselves(like walking around in the train, because the kids may fall down if the train stops), but Aussies tend to let go. They make their children learn from mistakes.

When we reached Fremantle after almost an hour trip, my first thought was "Wow! I love this place. I want to stay here if I work in Perth next time. Good place to live!" Fremantle is like a small town, dealing with more marine stuff and port because it is just along the coast. The first thing that we did when we reached there was hoping into the Fremantle cat(F.O.C) to tour around Fremantle. The shops were smaller and lower, with lots of museums. After sitting in the cat for one round, we decided to start with shopping. The first shop that attracts me is the spice shop. Lots of people inside. So, we just went in and see. Besides spice, they sell lots of coffee bean, rice, beans...... All were in sacks. I bought the homemade marshmallows. Nice one, soft, fresh but very sweet.

This is the Esplande park in Fremantle. Favourable for picnic and relaxing.

Fremantle is also famous for its fish and chips. The uncle that I met in the train recommended us Kailis and Cicerello's. How do we go there? Well, we just asked around and walked according to the directions given. Without them, we will lost in no where. We tried Kailis at first because the uncle said that Kailis is better. The uncle even taught us how to order (two pieces of fish instead of two meals because the chips are really too many). $10.40 for two pieces of fish.

Picture of me outside Kailis.

After eating, it was still very early because Susan and I planned to watch sunset before we go home. So, we walked around and saw the Marine museum. We went in and looked around.

Outside of the Marine Museum.

In the Marine Museum.

One of the cabins in the olden ship in the museum.

The pulley used during the olden times.

After visiting the museum, I found out that Fremantle is a bit like Malacca. Lots of traders came here and no wonder there was so many people in the spice shop that I went just now. After the museum, Susan decided that we just sat on the bench in the Esplanade Park and watched the nature. I love the park. It is so beauty.

Susan and the harbour

Me with the "fisherman" and bucket of fish.

Me along the jetty

Me with another "fisherman"

It was almost sunset. So, we went to eat again in Cicerello's. $11.45 for one fish & chips. After trying two of the famous shop, I prefer Cicerello's because the fish is thicker. Full with protein and fat today. Besides Poly, Susan is the only one that watched sunset together with me. We just met for exactly a week today, but seem like we had done lots of things and have been very close friends. We even started to share our inner thoughts. Thank God for sending me friends from Miri because He knows I miss Miri too much and had been bored for the past two weeks. I truly appreciate this friendship.

Fish & Chips and crab meat in Cicerello's

The harbour at night. Before we started to ask around for train station, we managed to get Baskin Robbin.

On our way home, we reached Oats Street Station. We had to transit bus back to Curtin in that station, but the bus will come only after half an hour. I was so tired that I did not want to wait anymore. So, I just called Avison to come and pick me up. While waiting for Avison, there was one guy came to me & Susan and start talking to us. This was basically our conversation:

Stranger: Hey, where are you from?

Sheron: Malaysia

Stranger: Oh, Malaysia. I like one of the traditional dish there. It consists of prawn, fish, chicken, beef and is cooked by snake egg.

Sheron: Snake egg? Susan, what is that dish?

Susan: *thinks* Oh, maybe is a kind of cold dish.

Sheron to stranger: Oh, I don't know which kind of dish are you talking about.

Stranger: Oh, is cooked by snake egg.

Sheron: *keep quiet*

Stranger: *laugh* Do you believe in yourself, Jesus, Islam, Buddhism, Hindus, Taoism.........

Sheron: *look at the stranger again* Oh, I believe in Jesus.

Stranger: Jesus?? *Then, he started to talk things in the bible - Old Testament, Prophets......*

Sheron: Oh..

Stranger:**continue with his 'airy' talk**

Sheron (realised Susan had been quiet and looking at other places instead of the guy anymore): *look at Susan - Oh no!! Is he drunk??*

Susan: *look at me and smile*

Stranger:*Goes on with his talk* So, when do you think Jesus will come again?

Sheron:*Oh no, he is definitely drunk.. God saves me!!* Erm.. Not sure..

By that time, Avison's car came. Thank God I am saved! I quickly get my bag and ran into the car. In the car, I complained to Avison. Avison told me that the place is very very dangerous at night and told me not to take the train back the next time I come back from city if it is already dark.

Later at night, Susan chat with me and said that I looked freak out just now. Susan said that just now the guy is really near to us and she said she almost hit the guy if he walk one more step nearer. But I still need to thank God that I am saved finally.

First Movie in Perth

Just came back from bringing the new students to Gelare and Movie Night. Today's movie is also my first movie in Perth - Transformer. I believe my friends in Malaysia sure said, wow, it is considered an old movie now and you still went to the cinema to watch. But transformer is really a good one. I like bumble bee, especially when it transforms into the small cute yellow car. It is already 12am now. It has been a very long time since I stay outside until this time. There will be nothing much to keep you outside in Perth actually compared with in Malaysia because the shops here close very early(5pm) except certain days and yum cha in Perth is also very rare.

Let's talk about my first visit to the cinema. First thing come into my eyes is couple seats!! I saw lots of couple seats over there and I sat on one of them with all those I don't know. Memory came back to me again where my Miri friends and I always gather at Bintang watching movie and playing bowling before the movie. But here, we have Gelare before movie! Had waffle, but the waffle came very late, so by the time it came, I only have 10 minutes to finish. Imagine Sheron, the slow-eater finishing a large waffle with ice-cream in 10 minutes??

Two things I dislike about the cinema here. First is that the preview session is so long, lasted for like half an hour. It's so wasting my time. Second is that the seats are not numbered. If you are a bit late before the movie starts, you will have to sit separately with your friends. This is the case that happened to me just now because I need to go to the washroom before I got into the cinema.

Well, actually for me, I prefer watching movie at home, in my comfortable couch with my Smith, rather than watching in the cinema tho I need to admit that the sound effect and the screen is great. But I just don't know why whenever I am in the cinema, I will feel dizzy.

Ok, that's all for now. I need my sleep.

Oh ya, I have committee post interview tomorrow morning. Wish me luck and pray for me yea...

BBQ night

One of the highlights when Kent Onn was here in Perth is the barbeque night, which made me sick after that and had to sleep from 2.30pm to the next day 10am.

For the barbeque preparation, we went to Swansea market to buy the meat. We bought lamb, beef and chicken wings for the barbeque. The other two girls cannot eat red meat(lamb,beef), so, just left me and kent onn eating the meat. Kent Onn is really a gentleman because I never see Vata doing anything whenever he is around. Helping her to carry all the stuff, when we have to carry our own grocery shopping, and lots more, which include being the cook for us! Kent Onn is our chef cook for the BBQ. He is the one who does every work from marinade to ready-to-eat. He is a good cook, too. Thanks, Kent Onn!

This is Kent Onn's secret recipe. Basically, I just know that there is honey and oil. The rest I don't know and that is why it is called SECRET recipe!

Yea, we are the meat lovers!

Barbeque~ing the meat.

Susan and the bottles of sauce that we used during BBQ. Do you see the white pepper? The white pepper is brought from Kent Onn, especially from Sarawak because the white pepper in Australia is not as nice as Sarawak. I love the Nando's chilli sauce.

The couples of the night.

The cook & I

Unluckily, when we were half way BBQ~ing, the gas was almost finished. So, the heat was very slow. Oh ya, the BBQ here need not use charcoal like what we do back in Malaysia, but using gas. Due to the slow heat, we decided to bring the meat back to be cooked in Vickery house.

The half-cooked beef and lamb.

Pan frying the lamb and beef in Vickery. (Kent Onn's job as well)

Frying the chicken wings.

We then went to Vickery House common room to play ping pong and the football game, while Kent Onn played pool with some guys there. Beside eating and playing, we, the girls also gossiped! We talked a lot that night and one of our topic is around the boyfriends. Well, I am in my first love, so I seriously need to learn a lot from Vata and Susan(more experience ones). One thing I found out that night is that all boyfriends are the same. Guys = same species. The girls always like to make their boyfriends angry and when they are angry, we are happy. But guys are not so easily to be made angry. Just like in my case, my boyfriend gets very patient with me everytime I try to make him angry. But that disappoints me sometimes because my mission fails! But when our boyfriends get angry, it is all very scary. I also learnt that I have actually done quite a few wrong things in dealing with my relationship. I will try to change that. Learn for better! Besides, I also came across how people handle break up. I met another new friend that night, who had just broken up with her boyfriend. She looked so depressed and she mentioned that she did not eat for one week and had been crying badly. Then, Susan talked about another friend who also cried for months and did not eat for few weeks. Breaking up sounds very scary to me. I cannot imagine myself breaking up with my boyfriend one day. But I believe that the pain which you have gone through makes you stronger. I also learned that first love never dies. They told me that although you have broken up with your first boyfriend, you will still always remember him because that is the place where you start holding hands with an "outsider", first time hugging and so on. Well, today I came across one article. I cannot imagine what will happen to me if I really got this from my own boyfriend. I'll just post it here.

The truth is, is that I never loved you, I hated you so much, you are my bitch and don't you ever forget that. I never cared about you, and never wanted to talk to you, and be around you. You really have no clue on how much I hate you. Now that I'm leaving I thought you should know that I hate you bitch, you never did the right thing, and you were never there. I didn't think I could hate someone as much as I hate you and I never want to see you for the rest of my life. I will never miss kissing you like before, I never want to cuddle up, how we used to. I will not miss you and that's a promise. You never had my love, and I want you to remember that.

Sad, isn't it?

That night, I stayed in Vickery house. But I did not sleep much, got my sleep only at 7 in the morning because was talking to Susan in her room. Amazing, right?? Sheron slept at 7am?? I woke up after sleeping for three hours. I was having headache but I still have to walk home. I straight into my sleep after I reached home and woke up at 1.30pm to have my lunch consists of half packet of maggi mee. By that time, I know I am going to sick. I couldn't even finish a packet of maggi mee! I was very dizzy that time and I know I am going to black out. So I called Joanne that I could not attend the orientation meeting and the combined cell that evening. Then, from 2.30pm, I continued my sleep until the next morning 10am without taking any dinner. Jonathan woke me up at 11pm to take the Panadol soluble. I saw things very blur when I woke. I could not even sit still, stand still or walk still, just feel like vomitting every moment. All in all, it was a very bad experience. But well, maybe this is the crazy thing I done for last semester.

Lesson learnt from this experience. I cannot sleep late.

Cooking!

Sheron started to love cooking and baking. I used to be a young girl who does not really know how to cook and only can cook maggie mee, fried egg, and rice. All because I scared of fire and heat. But now I enjoyed cooking meals, baking biscuits, making desserts and lots more. It's all starting because I have an electrical stove at home in Perth and have all the kitchen I want. Besides, you seriously need to know how to cook to be able to survive in Perth. It is so much cheaper compared with you eating outside. So, since I was bored for the past two weeks, one of the easiest thing that I have made is "tang yuan", plus it was also my favourite. I only get to eat these "tang yuan" in my grandma's house in december during "dong zhi". Maybe is like what people said, the lesser chance you get to eat them, the more you love it. It is very easy to make.

First, you need glutinous rice flour.

Second, mix the glutinous rice flour with certain amount of water depends how you would like the "tang yuan" to be. The more spongy you want it to be, the lesser water you need to add. The softer you want, the more water you need to add.

Then, roll the glutinous flour into small balls. Do not roll too big because it will expand when you throw it into the boiling water.

Then, add ginger or pandan leaves(optional) into the boiling water. Don't forget to add sugar or else it will be tasteless.

Finally, it is cooked. Chinese tradition: Eat the number of tang yuan as your age next year. If you are 20 years old this year, eat 21s of them.

My cute small tang yuan!

Growing in God's way

Now I look back, I found myself changing and transforming into new and higher level in the way God really wants. It's time to reposition myself.

I used to be a young girl who did not really care about cell group. In Miri, VCF will be our cell group which we will normally joined. Starting from the first year I was in Miri, Sabrina used to ask me to go along with her to cell group. But that time I was thinking, I need the time to study, need time to finish my homework, plus the cell was every Wednesday(during the weekday = busy time). I used to give people lots of excuse. But now I realised, it was not what I should explain to people, but is that God really cares and He wants you to spend some time with Him everyday. Even though it is a short 10 minutes quiet time, He is still satisfied with it. My second year, I started to join all the celebrations(combined cell held twice in a week on Friday). I tried not to miss any of them, even though I was busy. Like for once, I had CUTEC photography session at 12.30pm and celebration started at 12pm, I still went to the celebration although after 20 minutes, I had to leave. I was just satisfied with it although I only went there and sang few worship songs.

But from the first semester I went to Perth, I started to go to every cell group. I found that cell group is the place that I can grow faster and meet people. That is the place where we, brothers and sisters in Christ got closer, stronger friendship. There I met Stella(my best friend), Priscilla (Cell-Mummy), and Joanne (Cell-Leader). I viewed my cell group as my second home. That is the only place where I can find true love and "true" people. I just look forward to every weekend because that is the time when we can meet again. It is so nice to be back with each other, catching up with each other. I just like this kind of feeling. In between that, I also realise one important thing - we, Christians are lived to serve God and people.

Now, second semester starting soon. I have been raised from a normal member to a core member, getting more and more involvement in God's ministry. A core member is like sub-leader who in-charges of different sections like games, words, vision sharing, refreshment, transport and lots more. One important thing is core member have to speak God's words, preaching in particular. Wow! That scares me. I never do it before, but I will just do my best. Like my vision sharing, I never do stuff like that, but Joanne suddenly asked me to do it, sharing about prayer. What I said that night I have put in my first blog entry. Yea, I really didn't know what I should say. But I researched in the internet and made a summary. Although that night, I talked like giving speech, but I realised my weakness, which is I need to give more interactive like ask more questions or give more practical stuff, or even personal testimony. Well, that is basically what a core member do, that I have observed last semester. Don't really understand it yet, wait till I have my first core member meeting on Monday night, then I will keep you guys update, ok?

Beside all these, I have joined the curtin orientation this semester. At first, I joined it for my sake. I want to visit Margaret River's wine factory and chocolate factory, where you get to try all the wine you want and eat all the freshly made chocolate you like. Sound interesting right? That is what attracts me to join the orientation volunteer because I missed last semester as I was here only during the second week. I wanted to make up. But wait, today I went to Orientation Prayer Meeting. I realised one thing. I joined the orientation is not for my sake! Orientation is a great opportunity to do God's commision - to go and reach out. Therefore go and make disciples of ALL nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.(Matt28:19) Well, I dropped tears in the prayer meeting. God, I am scared to go out and reach people. I just don't know how to. I never do so and I don't have the ability to outreach to people yet. But inside me, a small voice came - "Just promise me you will do your best and I will lead you through". Ok, straight then, I promised Him I will do my best and I realised what I need to do is just treat people with a sincere heart and invite them to all the functions that our church has held, like Zion Food Fest, Freshies Welcome and Grace ball. There are lots of lost soul out there. The harvest is great, but the workers are few. So, we, as one body in Christ should be united to fight the darkness. We are all soldiers of God and must therefore keep the fighting spirit. Never give up. Face them and persevere on.

Another problem popped up in the prayer meeting. I admit I cannot pray as good or as long as the others pray, but I believe that God looks not only on the words we pray(He knows what we want to pray anyway), but God looks into our heart. I used to escape from this few times. In church, sometimes we were asked to pray for the person beside. Last time, I normally would just ask the person to pray and then I told him that I don't know how to pray. I remembered once, in baptism class, Soon Kong asked me to pray in front of 6 people. I told Soon Kong that I cannot pray in public and he let me off. Now I can pray, although I'll still feel stress and nervous, but I will still pray out loud, even in front of 15 people in my cell. Everyone was praying eagerly in the meeting just now, points by points. Voices got louder and louder. Well, what I did was just prayed all the points, and continued with my prayer in tongues as praying in tongues help you to continue praying when you do not know what to say or to pray. Praying in tongues let God knows everything you want.

All in all, orientation is not for my sake anymore, but is for God's sake, to draw more people to His kingdom. We are the fishermen. Tomorrow is my first day of orientation. I am still a bit scared now. I seriously don't know how to outreach! But I'll try. Everyone will have their first time, right? So, don't forget to pray for me and the people out there for open hearts yea.

Well, for your information, our church has done quite a lot of stuff just for the orientation. Organising Food Fest(Mamak Night), Opening booth giving lots of refreshments, wii games, Gelare night, Bringing new students to rock climbing, bowling, badminton, Freshie welcome(with lunch provided, dance, choir......) and lots more full of fun activities. So, look forward to see you new people!

Tour Guide

These few days have been very busy, tiring but enjoying period for me. Here, I want to extend my apologies to Mr. Kenin Loong for being late to reply his cbox. For the past few weeks, I have been complaining to my cousin that it was very bored staying in the house for few days (should be two weeks actually). But now, I really hoped that I will be staying at my home for at least one whole day. I need a rest.

Anyway, what have been keeping me occupied with for the past few days?? Well, it's all just being a so-called tour guide for Kent Onn's girlfriend, Vata and the other girl, Susan who just came to Perth for further studies. Kent Onn is my badminton circle of friend, met him only when we played badminton, but we were quite close. We have been walking around from 9am to 5pm. It was very tiring. But I was able to go to lots of places by my own which I never been there. Although I have been in Perth for almost five months now, I still not really clear with lots of things, like where are the tourism attractions, what bus number should I take, where are the bus stops. My cousin, Jonathan had been asking me to go to city to tour because I haven't finish walking the city. I went to city twice or thrice in one semester. It gave me an impression that it was just few rows of shops, like the Northbridge, but difference is that Northbridge has more Asian stuff.

But after being asked by Kent Onn to look after both of them, so I need to bring them around, telling them what they should do. Being a blessing for others since I know how is it like if you first come to Perth without friends or relatives, not as lucky as I am who have a cousin staying here for almost four years now, telling me what to do, which is the best handphone network to choose (we have lots of network here - Telstra, Optus, 3, Virgin, Vodaphone), internet at home (Telstra, iinet, amnet......), what bus to take to certain places(72,34,99,98,75,555,898,878......), and all kind of different important things.

Although I have been in Perth for few months, I am still not really clear with tourism attractions and in particular what type of bus should I take. So, by being the "tour-guide", I met some difficulties as well. Thank God that He gave me ways out. First problem, will be trapping in the city finding a 72 bus stop. We went to one bus stop, but the 72 bus only arrived one hour later. I didn't feel like waiting because Vata them still got lots of stuff need to be done in Carousel. I never sat a bus from city to carousel because normally I went to carousel straight from my house. I called my friend for what number of bus should I take. But it turned out to be the same bus that I took from Curtin to Carousel. We looked around the city walking a big big round, just to find another 72 bus stop where the bus reaches earlier than the first one, but we couldn't find any bus stop. So, at the end, we need to return to our first bus stop and waited for few minutes. It was also tiring in the bus because it traveled from city to Curtin, then to Carousel again(a long long way). So, we were all very tired by the time we reached Carousel. Exact feeling - hungry, tired, thirsty because we have not taken our breakfast and lunch yet when it was already 3.30pm.

Second problem, we went to sit the Yellow Cat, one whole round to tour around Perth. For your information, there are Yellow Cat, Blue Cat, and Red Cat running in the city. These cats are free of charge and they travel to East, West and North Perth. So, we decided to sit in one of them for sight seeing since we have lots of time. But, in the cat, the driver reached the end of the stop and there were still like 10 people in the cat. So, the bus driver asked us where we want to go actually, but actually all of the 10 people were just sitting there for sight seeing. So, the bus driver told us that if we want to sight seeing, we should actually stop at one of the cat stop and walked to the opposite cat stop for another cat to return. So, finally and luckily, the bus driver drove us back to perth city centre.

Beside the "misleading" part, I too enjoyed myself. my impression to the city and Northbridge is totally out! It actually has lots of place to tour. Beside rows of shops in the city, we were able to come across to the bank, WA printing centre, Curtin Business School Perth Campus(instead of Bentley campus) and lots more. I also came across with the WA Museum, WA state library and Art Gallery in the Northbridge. I believe I still have lots more things to discover. It's true that in the bible said that when you give blessing to others, you yourself are blessed too. Amen?! Yea, well, in these so-called-tour-guide days, I came across lots of new stuff and most importantly I made two new friends! It's fate maybe, that I am now very close with these two friends although we just met like one week? I will truly keep this friendship that I have made for the past few days.

Susan and Vata in front of the Government Printing Office.

Me and Susan in front of Curtin University of Technology Perth Campus.

Me in London Bridge.

Me in another view of London Bridge.

Jack, my cousin from Labuan came on Monday joined us in our sight-seeing tours.

The girls in Northbridge area.

Western Australia Museum.

Me in front of the Art Gallery

Me, Susan and Vata in front of the State Library of Western Australia.

Moody period...

Something has been bothering my mind since last night. I have been warned few things. I still clearly remember what I have been told that "when you play with fire, you will burn yourself." Yea, maybe this is what I deserved and asked for, but do I really enjoy it? Well, things came out as not what I expect, but honestly, I do enjoyed the process although it hurt. I know I am weird.

But inside me just want to rebel. Rebel everything. Rebel and violate all those warnings given. Purposely do the opposite things that are being told. I just don't want to listen. And today, I have really violated two of the warnings. How come I am not afraid or worry of all the consequences?

Inside me was crying. I just felt lack of love these few days. Haven't talk to any of my family members for the past three days, haven't talk to my parents for almost one week, especially my dad(one month plus) because he is now working in China(one month trip) and the communication service over there is not good. So, most of the time I called him I cannot get him. This was my first year being not able to even talk and wish my dad happy fathers' day, like what a daughter will normally do to her dad on that day. What I can do is just email him and he received the day after. That's not fair! Beside my family, I have also been hurt by my boyfriend.There are so many rumours. I know I shouldn't believe, but they just seem so real. I don't want to continue about this, just hope I will feel better after calling my sis later.

Tag

Since I was tagged by Sabrina, here there is..

1) 5 things found in my bag
- purse
- mobile phone
- house key
- tissue
- lip balm

2) 5 things found in my wallet
- money
- photo
- collection of cards (australia student engineer card, student card, credit card, IC)
- receipts
- name cards from lecturers

3) 5 favorite things in my bedroom
- mum's teddy bear
- perfume
- laptop
- bed
- poly's teddy bear

4) 5 things i've always wanted to...
- get a women devotional bible
- get a strong Christian faith husband
- be a professional worker in Shell
- a room with all those attached wall bookshelves from bottom to top
- grand piano

5) 5 things i'm currently into...
- books
- piano playing in church
- hongkong, taiwan, korean drama
- make up
- chatting with Poly at night

6) 5 people I tagged
- Amanda Chin
- FFX
- Ben
- sam sam
- samantha woon

Why I love Miri so much?

After my two-months-plus national service, the next two days, Sabrina and I with our parents brought us to Miri for a more exciting university life ahead. When we first moved into Curtin Village 5714, it was newly built. So, it was quite dirty, full with sand and dust after the construction. But thank God that our parents were there to help us clean the whole house and bought the stuff that we need for our stay while we were having our orientation in uni.

During my foundation first semester, Sab & I had the whole house all by ourselves. That was great and my room was room 2 in the house. We had bigger rooms compared to Senadin rooms, plus it's newly built. I remembered Sabrina's room flood once. The toilet broke and water kept splashing out in the midnight. The water splashed onto my door and reflected back into Sab's room through the space between the door and the floor. So, the next day, Sab woke up with her floors full with water. Haha...

Second semester, Adeline, Melissa and Sharon Yong moved in. That made six Labuan~ians in a house. So, there were more laughters (means noisier) and more people to hang around. I could still remember during the early second sem, my first time travelling on a public bus to the city together with Yee Enn, Sab & Adeline. Adeline and Yee Enn were very bored because they have nothing to do since they just finished their orientation. So, we decided to go to the city and play while shopping for grocery! We went to Bintang, then Boulevard. Finally, we had to call a taxi back because we had too many stuff. If not mistaken, two or three full trolleys, right? Yeah, that was fun.

This was my table in 5714 room 2, with lots of yellow stick-ons on the wall (reminders, units, advices). My laptop(Dell) on the far left. I could still remember changing three laptops during my one-year foundation. Not because it was not good or spoilt by me, but my dad just want to change it. I totally had no ideas why he keep changing my laptops. From Acer to Dell then to Acer again. But I prefer Acer the most though Dell is small. But when thing gets small, you need lots of plug-in which is so inconvenient.

During my orientation, we were separated into groups of animals. My group was the duck with Jing Tuang, Ian and Charlie. Highlight of the orientation is the O-night which is held at Piasau beach where we had lots of activities(beach volleyball). Later at night, every group has to perform one performance. Our group sang the Disney song "Can you feel the love tonight?" Our group was not the best, but we did enjoyed ourselves. I could remember Jojo group danced SHE mei li xin shi jie. Melanie got chosen for the Miss O-night.













A pretty Bruneian. She is smart as well, being the best foundation media student.

We were brought to Miri Gospel Chapel by Mr David, one of the management lecturer in Curtin. But he now works in Shell Lutong full time, no more teaching. Miri Gospel Chapel is the place where my Christian faith really starts to grow. I considered it as my home church as well.














This is Mr David and me. See the wall in our church? It is the ten commandments.

During our foundation, we were separated into five groups. I was in group A, with Sian Fa, Kenin, Poly, Ian while Sabrina was in group D, together with Florence Yii, Pei Chee and Jojo them. This was the picture taken during Poly's 18 years old birthday in his hostel when all of us were not as closed yet.













Three "outsiders" at the back(Oscar, Fang Rou & Chris). From left: Sian Fa, Hui Ling, Aileen, Albert, Poly and Cheng. Where is me? I came late that time because I went to library with Ming Siang. When I reached there, I was "forced" to take picture alone with Poly and is not one picture, is like three or four pics. Maybe is my punishment for being late?

After few months, everyone got very closed because of the small size group (20 people). Like what I always said with small group, people gets very close.













From left: Florence Yii, Sabrina, Sian Fa & Me. Group A students were having chemistry project presentation that time.













The group A girls taken with Ms. Anita (our Research & Writing Skills lecturer). Group A girls were also known as the Powerpuff Girl back then. From left: Jacinta, Aileen, Fann, Sheron, Hui Ling, Sian Fa & Shirley. Everyone was smiling so sweet.

My good mates back then were Ming Siang and Albert. During our first group meeting, everyone spoke english. Think of it was weird tho. Then, during sem one, everyone was very hardworking for the project and we decided to be in the same group during our second sem again. But that time, all of us slacked. Last minute work but I did enjoyed all those last minute work together. Everytime, when we worked till late, ming siang will definitely bring us to Luo Bintang for supper. I miss the lau su fen there. But the uncle no more selling when I was in year one. Didn't know where did he go. If anyone knows, please tell me, ok? I miss his cook.

I remembered once, while working on our chemistry project, we went to Albert's room in the hostel to finish it. Because we still left a lot and due date was just nearby, I decided to finish the project by that night as well. But maybe our talkings and laughters were just too noisy, the security came to check and we were caught! That time was 12.30am. So, the two securities jot down our names and IDs. But I had no idea what they did with our names after that because no any bad news after that. Maybe they just threw the paper away. Because of the group project, Albert, Ming Siang and I got very close, especially me & Ming Siang where we can start to have deep conversation. Till now, no matter how less we communicate with each other, but he is always my best friend because of the bond that we have formed earlier I guess.













This is one of the picture taken in Albert's room. Ming Siang and Jacinta.













In the picture, from left, Albert, me, Aileen and Ming Siang. One of our "proud" work, the physics project where our topic was Newton's Second Law. Though it was just a simple project, but I truly enjoyed myself in this project. Cycling to the nearby shop to buy the toy car with Aileen and treasure hunting for nails. That time, the Curtin Village Laundry room is half way built. So, we went there and find suitable nails.














This picture is taken during one of our activities in Malaysian Studies - Visit long house.

We had to take LAN subjects when we were in our foundation. We took Malaysian Studies in the first sem and Moral Studies in the second sem. Malaysian Studies is a tiring subject where we had to write two journals every week. Each journal's length is at least 300 words. One journal for lecture and one journal for newspaper reading. Think of it, it was very wasting time that time. Credit point is 0 and we still need to do so much work and some more, it's all Malaysia history again.













Picture taken during one of the debates for our moral activities. Moral studies is very interesting because there are lot of activities(sketches, debates, visits) held instead of just studying and memorising stuff. I was in Kenin's group that time, together with Sabrina, Loi, Debbie, Natalie, Oscar, and Aylwin. Our pride, Sabrina had won three times straight for the best debater. I remembered one of our topic is "Sexual Transmission Surgery good or bad?" We got the good side. But we all know that it's more point for the bad side. But finally we did win. I could still remember Sian Fa would speak very very fast when she is nervous on the stage.

Other than debate, our group visited the Kidney Dialysis Centre. I remembered meeting an old man, Mr Leong? the ketua kampung or something like that, I couldn't remember. We invited him to help us during our moral presentation that time but too bad, he broke his leg nerve and had to stay in the hospital. We bought some fruits for him when visiting him. My first and last visit to the Miri hospital.

Other than that, we still had sketches. Richard Kho, I would rate him the funniest and best actor I ever met. Other than him, there are still some like Jojo, Albert and Cheng(acting pai kia). Good job!













Another thing which makes me occupy as a foundation student is the Varsity Christian Fellowship (VCF). I was not as active yet while I was in my first sem. I prefered to stay at home all the time, which came to think of it, it was very bad tho. I called it no life. But, I started to get active in my second sem and I enjoyed it. But too bad, I missed out the Alice Farm trip during the first sem.

Anyway, I remember joining one of the VCF activities at Parkroyal. Buffet for RM5 only?? Nope.. Because the club has already paid for some. Besides the buffet, we had lots of fun in the beach. Beach volleyball, boomerang...... We managed to swim in the swimming pool in Parkroyal when it was dark. It was fun. In the pic was me and Ah Lung. Sabrina at the back.

The foundation graduation marked the end of my foundation life.













In the picture is Poly, sister Karen (our friend in MGC), Me, Brother Cheng, and Kenin. See the flowers in our hands? Is given by Karen. One of the nice friend that I met in MGC. Not forget Soon Kong, Oja, Nehum, Freda, Robert......













Picture of me with my other friends graduating same time with me. From left, Alywin Lee (Lee Kim Shin's son also president of Student Council Miri 2007), Brother Cheng, Me, Fann, Hui Ling, Kenin, Ian and Poly(carrying all my stuff). How come only some of us wearing the graduation gown? Oh well, we had to pay for it tho. I didn't want to join the graduation at first because I found it meaningless because we were not graduating as a Degree student, but is only foundation. Just like STPM. It was quite expensive as well. RM60 for the gown which you only wear for half day. But the student officers called me few times that I must join that ceremony, because I need to receive my Chief Minister award (the highlight). So, I had to join.

Does graduating mean separation as well? Yeah, I admit there are a number of students that left us, like George, Sabrina, Fann, Hui Ling and Yii Yang. But majority of the students still remain. So, we are still very close to each other.













Albert and George. I could still remember George is from Kuching. He is same class with us during our early first sem, right? I lost contact with this friend. If anyone has his email or hp no, please forward to me, ok?













This is Hui Ling and Fann. Both of them have switched to commerce.













This is Ian number 2. Ian Ling Yii Yang. He switched to commerce as well.

Not forget about my first relationship, which started on the 9 November, 2005. Second semester. During my one-year foundation, there are two rumours about me. One with Ming Siang and I was called "ah bian fu ren" or "zong tong fu ren" that time because Ming Siang's nickname is Taiwan president "Ah Bian'. Rumours happen because I was very close with him that time due to the group project. The other one was with Poly. Poly used to be a shy and quiet guy in group A. I had a bad habit which is to make shy or quiet people talk, like Poly, Rony, Raymond.... Lots more. Because of that, Poly and I got close as well. I remembered that time I had some personal problem with my far-away Labuan friend. You know who you are? Poly is the one that offered help. He is a nice guy and he is really understanding, man! He always knew what I am thinking.

This is Poly and I. I used to tell myself that if I ever have a relationship, it will not last long because I am not as loyal. But now, we are reaching two years of our relationship soon! That proves me wrong as well. Though we are far apart, we still manage to move on with this long distance relationship. Thank God for His blessings.

This marked the end of year 2005.

All in all, my maturity has one step increased, though it's still not so mature yet. But of coz, I'll continue to grow in the way that God wants me to be. I enjoyed my foundation as much as my degree life. Will post out more next time.