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Is it really important what do u do for living? Well, in Malaysia, most parents would want their children to study hard, get good education, be a doctor or engineer so that they can live a better lifestyle. That is the typical mindset of every parents. Well, maybe it is due to fact that the wage discrepancy between the professionals and the blue collar workers is huge.
When people ask me what course am I doing in Sydney Uni, I’ll normally tell them I am doing mechanical engineering and for sure they’ll look so impressed. But in Malaysia, people would think, well, just another mechanical engineering student. This is mainly due to the fact that engineering is considered one of the hardest course here and only the chosen ones can do it. But back in Malaysia, there are heaps of engineering students, you can pull out any engineering student on the street.
The reason behind this is pretty simple. The wage between engineers and other odd job works is not that much different, well, I mean for the graduate, and also people here have a choice to do what they want to do, they can still make a living out of that. In Malaysia, it seems like being engineers and doctors will definitely guarantee high salary. Sometimes we do not have a choice in life, do we?
A few months back when I was watching Britain’s Got Talent, I was so envy those who have raw talent and be able to do what they like to do instead of sticking to the conventional jobs. Well, for some, your talent is not important as it can not offer you a high salary. But for the sake of money, you have to do something that you dont really like to do. So the choice is up you.
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Money? Academic results? Well, four of us came to the same university 3.5 years ago, it was really tough as we have to study in reverse every year (meaning that we have to go through second semester before first semester). Life is even tougher with the allowance we got. Since then, I have made my decision to work part time while study to have a better life and not suffering due to lack of money. I knew it would be hard, no matter how hard it is, no matter how many sleepless nights I have (I lost count of them actually), no matter how tired I am, no matter how sleepy I am, I still keep going as I always remember that “What doesn’t kill you make you stronger”. It has been a very long journey to me. I suffer depression, abuse and pressure from my workplace but still I have to study, do my assignments, attend classes and tutorials, just trying to be professional as a student.
Today three of my friends will be graduating with first class honours while the best I can achieve is second class first division. I know I could have done better if I allocate my working time for my study but I have done my very best to balance between work and study. I do regret of choosing money over academic results in the first place as I know I would have gotten a better result without working. Nevertheless, I am glad that I did because I can buy things I like, I can make someone happy by buying him/her present, I can buy electrical appliances to my family, I can give money to my parents, I can go for movie every week, if not once in fortnight, I can afford to ear out, I can go travelling around, I can go to concert, I can have a better holiday at home, I can have good savings for my future and lots more. So if I chose academic results in the first place, I wouldn’t have got all these! As we know, everything has its own pros and cons, just that which one outweighs another. So the question is, do I regret? Yes, sometimes.
In the end, does academic results really important? It seems like now as it is a passport to secure an interview or even a job but it is not a guarantee for a successful career. So does it make money important as well? Not really. If you have money, you can’t buy the academic results but you can use it for your future such as investment, savings and etc. After all, I am extremely sad today, I am demotivated and I wish I could have done better. Although I still have a semester left with 2 unit of studies to go, it is totally impossible now to achieve first class. I accept it and I am down to earth now. So close yet so far. Full stop.
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La Perouse
This is the place that I think I am going to test my device. It is at North Cronulla Beach.
Went to a few beaches to search for a strategic place to test my wave device. First off we went to La Perouse, the waves there are too strong and it is kinda rocky so I don’t think it is a suitable place after all. After that, we went to a beach near La Perouse and it seemed like a suitable place for us as there were some man-made rocks which are good in deploying my wave device. It was raining heavily all of a sudden and I was all wet. After that, we went to Cronulla Beach in South Sydney and we found a sewage pipe which runs across to the the sea, it was very quiet, not sure if it was because of the rain but we were very happy with it. The waves are strong enough to generate 1kW of electricity and the water is kinda deep. The frequency of incoming waves is about 6-7 seconds and sometimes even faster than that. The big question will be how are we going to mount or install the device on it?
I am not in the mood yet to start my thesis, still can’t get over my holiday yet after a very hectic semester. Look like I just have to start next week, if not my supervisor will not be happy. There are still so many things to do but thanks to my dad for helping me with the unidirectional gear system, it is like a big step forward for me, I could easily spend months of that! After all, I just have to spend my whole summer on my thesis and working at the same time. My friends are leaving me one by one, either graduating or going back for summer holiday. To add salt to my injury, my love life seems like going nowhere so I am all alone here with no one to be with except for my colleagues. Guess I have to find my own happiness living alone.
Went to my friend’s graduation this evening, hoping that I will graduate with 2nd class upper, I am so close and yet there are so many things to be done to reach my goal. It is solely depending on my honours thesis now. Well, at least I only have 1 unit of study next semester so I can fully concentrate on the thesis. Around this time of the year, I should have been having fun in New Zealand but due to the nature of my work which I will not disclose here, I had to fork out another $230 to change my flight to April next year, during Easter holiday. I have finished touring the South Island of New Zealand so I will finish off the whole New Zealand by travelling around North Island of New Zealand next year. 
Unfortunately, I just paid ATO (Australian Taxation Office) $2247 today and it hurts me so much. I guess, it will take some time for me to recover the money. In fact, I bought a Wii last week and I spend around $360 for that. Arghhh! Money is not enough! Just gonna work hard this summer and simultaneously curb my spending on food and other expenditures! Money will never be enough, just like sex!
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The Invention of Lying
Tonight after having dinner with my colleagues, we went for a movie called “The Invention of Lying”. Well, just to make it short, the world depicted in this movie is a world which everybody can’t lie to each other. Everyone has to speak out from their mind and honest, it hurts of course. But the message delivered in this movie is – no matter how many times and how much you lie, but u have to be honest with your love ones, this include your parents, good friends and your lifelong partner. You have to spend the rest of your life with them so if you tell a lie, you have to live everyday thinking about the lie that you’ve told, it will not be pleasant at all.
If you are a South Park fan, you would have probably watched the episode named “Butter’s own episode”. A lie is a lie, no matter it is for good purpose or bad purpose but sometimes you have to tell a lie to make someone happy so does it make it ok to lie? Well, it is a very hard question to answer. It depends on the situation and person. So I will let you to be the judge when you are lying, just think about the consequences before you do it. By the way, Eid Mubarak to everyone who celebrate it! Cheers!
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KFF
Well, today is a special day because today is the end of KFF (just in case you don’t know, it’s a brand of us) after almost 4 years. It has been a very long journey and I thought we will make it to the end but sometimes we can’t really get what we wanted. The end is not the end I wanted, it is a sudden end in which I am not prepared off. It is indeed heartbreaking and I am shattered by it but somehow every cloud has a silver lining. Perhaps it is a good thing for her as finally she can move on and once and for all, release all the pressure exerted on her all these while. In fact, I think she will be happier without me as I have been giving her so much misery and trouble ever since we were together. I am not a good person or partner so I am very sure that she will find someone better than me and be happier than before.
While for me, life will not be the same anymore. Going to sleep at night or waking up in the morning will never be the same again. I don’t have to look at my mobile anymore nor message anyone as before because things have changed. It will certainly be a boring and dull life for me especially during holiday now. I am all alone in my room most of the time, even if I go out, I don’t have friends as most of them are going back to their own respective country for good or temporary for summer holiday. I am lonely and blue. I am more like a robot now, doing the same thing everyday. Well, I am devastated, I miss her and I still love her but there is nothing much I can do now. I hate improper goodbye but we promised to end it in a proper way later by meeting up for the last time, doing things together for the last time, enjoying the last moment as much as we can, this is how we started and this is how we are going to end it. At least we will cherish these moments for the rest of our lives. Sorry, I am not good in words especially in describing my feeling now, all I can say is I am real sad. It’s like you lost something very close to you, very valuable and precious to you after 4 years. You miss it so much but there is nothing much you can do to get it back, it is lost forever (figuratively of course). It is a deep cut, like a 5-inch knife stabbed into my heart and it just keeps bleeding, even if you stitch it up, it will take so much time to heal. Time is a good medicine because it is the only medicine that can cure this kind of injury. But it also means that it is going to take so much time, years after years. Last time, it took me almost 3 years though the relationship was only about a few months but now, it is a 4-year relationship so how long would it take? I will let you do the calculation.
Looking back these 4 years making me realize that actually we don’t spend much time together due to the nature of our relationship but somehow I don’t know why we have so many moments, good or bad, sweet or sour, joy or tears, happy or sad, exciting or dull. I think maybe because we don’t meet up a lot but once we do, we really make use of our time to the fullest we can. This is something that I never regret of. Once said, “life is not measured by how long you live but it is measured by how exciting your life is.” In this case, 4 years might be short or long but it doesn’t really matter because we have been through so much together and make use of every moment when we have the chance. Looking back the photos certainly bring back a lot of memory to me, I laughed, smiled and cried. I miss you and you have always been a good life partner of me, I appreciate you now more than ever. Thank you for everything from the bottom of my heart, you are the source of my inspiration, my happiness and my life. Thank you once again. I will never forget you and in future (probably when I am in my 30s) if I have a partner again, I will tell her how great our love is, I don’t care what she will think but I just want her to know that I had a very wonderful partner before and it is a fact that cannot be altered, it is carving in every inch of my heart.
Last but not least, life is never fair and will not be fair. Sometimes no matter how great our love is but in the end, there are things that are more important that love such as family, religion, race, family background and etc. Love can break all the barriers as love is blind but then not in all the situations. True love is hard to find but once you found it, there are so many obstacles which can test the strength of the true love. Well, if it isn’t strong enough, it will fail and bring catastrophic outcomes. For those who have found their true love and live happily ever after, I wish you all the best, may God bless you all and hopefully it will last forever until your last breath. Sometimes I do envy those who have found their true love and being so happy together but in the end I know that I am not a good person myself, that’s why I don’t deserve any of this. I do believe in Karma and I know I am such a bad person and I truly deserve it. I accept it wholeheartedly without any complaint. So from now on, I will try to move on my life and will try to be strong. It is going to be hard but I have to give my best.
With that, I dedicate these 2 songs to you. The first song is about how much I miss you and the second song is about how much I love you. They are my most favorite songs of all time.
p/s If you are reading this and would like to offer any encouragement, advice or opinion, please comment below this post. Thank you.
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The big doghnuts in Coles Worldsquare!
Well, after studying for about 4 days, finally I have finished my exam. Well, the questions are taken from the textbook, not a single word or sentence is changed and I have some of the solutions of the book but somehow I made one big mistake, hopefully it will be alright. This will be the last exam of my uni life as I don’t have anymore final exam next semester as I only left with Honours Thesis B and Professional Engineering 2. Thus, I don’t have to sit for exam anymore! I hate exam coz normally I can’t score in the exam, I only get good marks from assignments, quiz (except for Renewable Energy), presentations and etc. I have no idea why, maybe it is due to my nervousness especially before and during the exam which affect my performance. So no more exam after this! Hooray! Haha! Yes!
But it doesn’t grant me freedom as I still have to work on my Thesis during the whole summer holiday which is about 3 months long. Had a meeting with my supervisor just now, look like I still have so many things to do including measuring the theoretical energy from the sea, finalised my project plan in detail, finish the manufacturing, find a suitable site, figuring how to install it near shore and etc. Can I finish all these in 3 months? Well, I hope so! But thanks to my dad for helping me with the unidirectional gear system, it has certainly made my work easier quite a lot as it is the most important part of the whole device. Just in case if you don’t know, I am doing a device that can extract energy from ocean waves and my aim is to generate 1kW of electricity. The expectation is high so the pressure is mounting on me tremendously.
But for these few days, I will just enjoy myself and tomorrow I am going to watch A Christmas Carol 3D in IMAX Darling Harbour, Sydney. Maybe next week going to watch New Moon though I am not a fan at all. Till then, enjoy your holiday and hope to hear from me again!
P/S The picture above is taken from Coles Worldsquare, the doughnuts are big, aren’t they? Somebody told me they look like somebody’s ass! Haha.
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Like the multiple display at the background.
Big screen at Nickelback Concert
Someone threw her bra to Nickelback and Nickelback decided to hang it around his guitar while playing it. Cute!
Went to Nickelback concert last Friday in Acer Arena, Sydney. Got two tickets but couldn’t find someone to go with me though I gave away the ticket for free. Each ticket cost me 150 bucks but since it was somehow like in the middle of exam or maybe people don’t find Nickelback interesting enough so no one wanted to go for FREE. I have always wanted to go to Nickelback concert so I don’t really mind if no one wants to be my company. I tried to sell the tickets via ebay or gumtree but to avail. In the end, I forced my best friend, Andy to go with me though he never really likes concert. Overall, the concert was really cool and fun! Never regret going there! Shame on you who reject my invitation! 
There were quite a few memorable scenes. First off, there was like so many F*** words throughout the concert and many obscene words as well especially from the special guest – Sick Puppies. From the picture above, one of the fans took off her bra and threw it to Nickelback. LOL. Nickelback said it was cute so he just hung it around his guitar while playing his guitar and then put it near the drum for the rest of the concert. And then I saw one hotchick who basically took off her shirt and showed Nickelback her huge “assets”. LOL. Left my jaw dropping though. Haha.
Next stop is Lady Gaga concert in March next year. well in between I might go to Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, Green Day or even Kelly Clarkson. See how it goes though. I still have a few videos of Nickelback performing live on stage, guess I’ll upload to youtube and post it here. Till then, wait for my next post! Have fun and enjoy your holiday!
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Snapshot from 2012 movie.
Just came back from the premier of 2012. It was so crowded so it was very hot in the cinema. Such a relief to come out after 2 hour and 40mins. Well, what can I say about this movie? It is awesome, the special effects are good, this kind of movie you have to watch it in cinema and not downloading the crappy version. It is definitely worth every single cent. I am not giving too much away about this movie, there are some funny moments when some of the moviegoers clapped their hands, there are some touch moments when some dropped their tears and in the end, it is a very complete movie with lots of emotion as well as heart inside. But then, sometimes I just don’t like happy ending because it supposed to be realistic, it is not a children’s movie which must have a happy ending you know. Sometimes a bad ending can be a very good ending too, it will touch your heart more.
After all, for those who are not aware of the 2012 Armageddon theory, actually it has been rumored since the Mayan existence. According to Mayan’s calender, this is the last day of the calendar so does that mean it is the last day for the world? Well, recent theory has showed that it will just start all over again. Besides, I have watched a 1-hour-long documentary about Nostradamus. I have the documentary video with me now, you can borrow it from me or I can show you where to get it. But if you just want to have a quick understanding, please visit here. Some even claimed that Einstein supported this theory as well. So what will be the truth? Guess nobody will know until the day comes.
But most importantly, the end of world is not what really matters, in fact what really matters for us now is to appreciate everything and everyone around us. Life is short, you will never know how much you miss something or someone until you lost it/her/him. Never take things for granted, life isn’t fair sometimes but we just gotta make use of it, isn’t it? So the story behind this movie is not really about the end of the world, it is more than that. It is about humanity, about appreciation of people around you, someone you love, someone you hate just because of difference in opinion, someone annoy it, someone care for you, someone helps you so much in your life and so on. Believe me, when the day comes, you will repent, regret and reconcile with every wrongdoing you have made. Tonight, let us put up our pillow and give this a thorough thought. Till then, have a good night everyone and I need to study for my exam next Tuesday again. Hear from me soon again. Cheers.
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Patience is a virtue. Well, it sounds true. In my life there are so many times that I have not been patient enough, getting too emotional sometimes. I really need to work out my emotion as well as patience, something that I have to improve. Over the past few weeks, there have been a lot cases in which I was getting too emotional involved but in the end I managed to calm down and control my action. A Chinese proverb once said, “Retreat one step you’ll be able to see the vast sea and borderless sky.” If you be patient and hold your emotion for a while, a better outcome might awaits you sometimes, well most of the time actually because normally you will act without giving a second thought once you are emotional.
In another story, I’m going to list down things that I don’t like to do in DELI (delicatesteen):
- Taking the ice out from the seafood section. It is so heavy and everytime I will hurt my back doing that!
- Taking prawns out from the seafood is so painful to my fingers! Not to mention the freezing cold ice that make my fingers numb!
- Serving Ricotta cheese? Yeah! They are so soft and “fragile”, it is so hard to take them using hand without destroying it.
- Cleaning oven racks that are not soaked more than 1 hour with degreaser.
- Serving Salmon’s head! It is so disgusting when the salmon seems staring at you when you hold it! No! I didn’t kill you, I am just selling you!
- Chickens punch a hole in the bag and the chicken oil is spilling all over the warmer! Gross!
- Serving customers who are very rude, never say thank you and never trust you!
- Serving customers at after 11.30pm is annoying especially they are getting the salad!
- Throwing rubbish! It is so hard to find a bin to throw all the smelly-like-Malulee rubbish! It is as hard as finding a kangaroo meat in the store!
- Cleaning slicer! I always have a dream that I will cut off my fingers using the slicer!
Well, I think there are still more but they are not that significant compared to what I listed above. Ok, time to study for my management exam now. Daaaaaaaaaaaa!
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