Evolution of Dance hehh this is awesome..

we all know the classic savage gardens - santa monica, truly madly deeply, affirmation, crash and burn, the animal song.. but i recently discovered another 2 songs that are sosososo sweeeet!..Universe from Savage Garden, and 2 beds and a coffee machine from affirmation..really really nice..dont know why those songs didnt spread around Thing of the day!!~ being in the study mood

some people take exams in dusty old classrooms, i take mine in a world heritage site =D i just found out today, from the Farrago, (fantastically entertaining monthly student union newspaper. i seriously recommend all melb u students to pick up your FREE copy every month)that melbourne uni's exam venue aka REB (Royal Melbourne Building) which is just about 15minutes away from where i live is a world heritage site. i cant believe that i take my exams in a UNESCO world heritage site. serious! haha.. i feel quite privileged really...it makes taking exams that little bit more thrilling now for sure =P im gona take pictures when i go for my exam..haha. in case you dont believe me and think im just bullshitting, here's proof from uni and from UNESCO. Thing of the day!!!~Remixed classical music

i seriously applaud the producers/writers of the oc. they have really succeded in making a good tv show. and a good tv show is when the show is no longer just another show and it actually has an influence on you. when after you've watched the show, your mood has been affected and you dont just forget about it, when you start feeling for the characters, getting upset about stuff that happens to them, its as if youre actually right there in the oc and as if the oc IS actually real that those characters are real. (actually i am living in the oc..just that it stands for ormond college..haha)think about it..think about mischa barton as a person not marissa. cant right! i mean like who's mischa barton if she's not marissa..if u know what i mean..i guess its kinda freaky to think about actors and actresses in that way cos they are real people with their own lives and all..but yea.. anyway.. 7 straight episodes today. actually..i havnt really been following the oc..been too busy with prison break and lost (and studying) but the last episode of season 3 just aired and suddenly everybody is talking about it!and i found out about things that happened..and before that i couldn be bothered too much about the oc but after finding out that 'things' happen this afternoon i was like arghhh dammit i cant do anything else if i dont find out!!! so i watched 7 episodes in a row..with only dinner in between no 5 and no6. yes im insane. and i havn finished it yet. but i had to stop myself cos its ridiculous to keep on watching another 7episodes to finish the entire season off and i have to study..arghhh. but of course i couldn stop my itchy fingers and so i surfed around for oc news and inadvertedly read the sypnosis for the last episode. lol. so now i know how what happens and i think that's cured my oc urge abit.. ah well.. who knew that a tv show could affect your mood so much man. to all those people that say the oc is lame or that it was good before but got lame. chehh. not worth my time arguing with you over it.season 1 was probably the best season..but season 3 oh man oh man..inconceivable. simply inconceivable. its so wrong the things that happen..how could it happen! but yea its precisely those that make it so so gripping and it really tugs on your heartstrings..thats the best way that i can put it.. that all said, its time to get on with my own life. i am in the oc but the oc isnt real..move on girl!!! move on!!! mm i wonder what's going to happen in season 4.. Thing of the day!!!~The O.C. - one of the best tv shows ever.

watched da vinci code with amanda this afternoon (and i got a free poster too!haha). its not as bad as the reviews made it out to be. i liked tom hanks in the show dispite initial sentiment of that being a badbad choice.. anyway, once again a renewed reason to never believe what critics say.. that aside,something else has been going through my mind for a while now..u know when you say da vinci code, it sounds like your acting cool and actually its the vinci code but u go da vinci code. but in this case you're not acting cool and it actually is da vinci code. hahaha yea i know..do anything except study. lol Thing of the day!!!~$2 casino meals!

sometimes textbooks crack me up so much exerpt from Physics by Giancoli on the topic of Entropy "..it has been calculated that the probability that a stone resting on the ground could transform 1 cal of thermal energy into mechanical energy and rise up into the air is much less likely than the probability that a group of monkeys typing randomly would by chance produce the complete works of Shakespeare." that's hilarious man..mean like somebody actually went to calculate the probability of monkeys typing out shakespearean by chance? very free hor.. Thing of the day!!!~short days at uni

its not good to 'surf around' at online shops. its making me one very unhappy frustated girl because i cant buy all those pretty things! dammit.. Thing of the day!!!~ Junni's n Jan's birthday dinner party at Spicy Fish! =)happy birthday dears!

there's nothing like a nice good clean public/uni toilet to make your day that much better. keep it clean people. Thing of the day!!~ the above said

im COMING HOME on 19 June !!!! yes and on the 18th there's Brazil VS Australia.. hehh that oughta be good..mmmm had my last singing class today..and i sang Dream a little dream solo!haha..each week 1 or 2 people have a go singing solo and the teacher tells you what to do to help you improve..and it was good!hehheh..actually sometime during the middle of the course i felt a bit bored of the lessons..but now its over i feel a bit sad...haha oh well..glad that i did it =) Thing of the day!!!~today! mmm today's been not much different from any other monday..but dont know why, it just felt like a good day..had a better mood throughout the day and i dont feel like exhausted or wrung out like ive been feeling the past few days.. happy days..happy days..

You Are 20 Years Old

Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe. 13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences. 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more! 40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

-- wow..how accurate..

My Perceived Reality, Dreams, and the Real Life (1461 words) By Christina Yeen Hui Tee People live in the same world; a world which itself is distinct and constant, and yet every person has an inherently different perception of it. The reason for this is quite simple. Each person’s background, experiences and gathered knowledge will play a part in determining his/her future thoughts and actions consciously and subconsciously. In other words, you are who you are because of who you have been. Perhaps some occurrences cannot be simply explained as being a result of past experiences but because of the intrinsic wiring of our minds. But that is left to be debatable and is not the main point of this essay. In this essay, keeping in mind the principle that each person has a different perceived reality, I shall attempt to answer the question of what is my perceived reality with regards to the three exhibits and my dreams; and also explain why and how I have arrived at such a place. I have found that there is close relation between my experience of viewing the exhibits and my dreams because essentially, what I remember most from the exhibits and dreams likewise are the things that impact me the most. Although it is important to note that it is difficult to tell the difference between not remembering seeing the object and not noticing it in the first place, it is even more important to realise that what makes you notice and remember the subject is the significance that the particular subject has for you. I believe that the conscious effort to keep a dream diary and remember my dreams has affected my dreams. But this is not necessarily a bad thing as it has made me realise that not only do I really only notice things that are significant to me, it has also shown that the things which I apprehend is reflective of my current position in life. Previously, I did not ever notice whether or not colour is present in my dreams. But after the conscious mental note to notice colour in my dreams, I had a particularly vivid dream involving colour. I was a soccer player in a match and I had received a yellow card from the referee. The whole scene was in black and white except for the yellow card which was held high, conspicuous and shining bright yellow. This dream could not possibly be more indicative of my current need to fulfil requirements for my assignment Going to the museum to view the three exhibits was definitely a novel experience. Not just because the exhibits themselves were original pieces but also because for the first time, I was actually excited about doing work necessary to complete an assignment. Being someone with much history of studying science subjects and hence having an academic experience made up mostly of rote learning, I welcomed this opportunity to appreciate the arts and practice a more flexible approach to studies. I advanced upon the viewing of the exhibits with much anticipation and expectation; expectations of myself and of the exhibits. I expected myself to finding meaning to what I would see and I expected the exhibits to enthral and engage me to some extent. Unknown to me at that point in time, these expectations would actually influence my thoughts and feelings while viewing the exhibits. This might seem like an obvious thing to say, but nevertheless, what I remember most about the excursion to view the exhibits is the main subject of the exhibits themselves, more specifically, the main impression of each film that I got after viewing them. The point of going to view the exhibits was not only to engage in the physical act of viewing them but also to recognise our feelings while viewing it. However, as during that point in time I was slightly unclear about what was meant by recognising the reasons for my observations, what I brought out of the experience was the main impressions that the exhibits left on me as a result of the physical act of viewing them. Personally, any direct consequence of a physical act always leaves a more lasting impression as compared to fleeting thoughts or emotions to pass through my mind. In this case, the direct consequence would be what I remembered of the exhibits and I remember this because of its obvious significance towards this assignment. The exhibits themselves did induce thoughts and feelings because of what was being shown. For example, the vibrant colours in “gins_leap/dubb speak” surfaced feelings of light-heartedness and the Christian subject matter in “Divide” made me more aware of my Christian background. However, these thoughts are trite and can be easily conjured by sensing any other stimulus. What is important is to recognise that what I am left with at the end of the day is what impacts me and thus what I remember. While I hardly remembered what I felt while watching the exhibits, (I had to refer to my notes taken while watching the films in order to produce the above lines) my impressions of the exhibits have remained clear. By recognising what impacts me, I have thus realised what is essentially important to me as a being. I have found that the impressions that I was left with were formed largely based on the requirement for what I try to perceive before I can internalise it to become part of my perceived reality. This requirement is coherence. And so I found myself asking a lot of questions while viewing the exhibits. What are all the pots for? Where are the men trying to go? What do the colours signify? When coherence was not found, I then subsequently internalised what I felt was most significant about the exhibit. In “Vapour” the film did not show the function of all the pots and hence although I can remember various parts of the film- the steam, the man walking around the pots, the rows and rows of pots, its sequence does not matter and the main idea of the film to me is that it is showcasing a bunch of pots in an eerie setting. For “Divide”, as I have a Christian background, I am familiar with the Old Testament story of genocide and hence I noticed the parallel between “Divide” and the biblical story and I remember its general plot. This is also an illustration of how your past experience influences your perceptions as if I did not have prior bible knowledge, I would not have noticed the parallel intended and hence perhaps made less sense out of the film. For “gins_leap/dubb speak”, I could not find any coherence at all and thus what I remember of it is that it had many very pretty colours. Underlying my main responses to the films were also other internal feelings that were not direct responses to what was being viewed but were stirred up as I watched them. I felt confused when I could not make sense of what was being shown and that eventually led to boredom. This boredom that I felt arose due to the fact that I could not comprehend what was being shown. This then resulted in some anxiousness as I knew I had to make observations for my essay. All these in turn were a result of my expectations as earlier mentioned. Hence it is also possible that your mood affects how you feel about things as if I had come to view the exhibits in my own leisure and did not have an to write an essay about them, I definitely would not have been worried about trying to derive meaning from what I was watching. My experience of viewing the exhibits does reflect what happens day to day under normal circumstances because it is not possible for that real life experience of going to view the exhibits and the way I processed my thoughts thus far to have been removed and separate from the way I normally function. It is consistent with the fact that in everyday life, the things that I remember or impact me are also those that I understand or those which have had particular significance to me. My perceived reality is unique to me alone and likewise for you. This assignment has actually turned out to be quite a journey of self-discovery and although I have tried to convey my thoughts and feeling through words, can I be sure that you truly understand what I have felt? I believe it is safe to say that the only thing that is definite is that some things will always remain ambiguous. -- heh remember the last line from the "uncertainty" compre in jc.. lets see what i'll get for this essay. Thing of the day!!!~waking up from a bad dream

you know what..this may sound quite startling..(cos im going to sound like a cold hearted bitch) ..but i think that for the first time..im really missing my family..(there you go..cold hearted bitch..been away for almost a year and now only miss family)!! haha uhh yeah.. i mean..like..yea i dont know whether you'd actually know what im talking about..(u might say you do, but how do i know you really do?your interpretation of what im saying could be totally different based on your own experiences and hence be actually thinking about something totally different from what i actually mean...ahhhh..hehh ok i learnt this from psych and again in this movie i watched for my psych assignment..which i will post right after this,im quite proud of it btw.anyway, the movies called waking life and its full of really interesting thoughts.. the kind of things that make you go "oh yeahhh thats so true..why havent i thought of that before..") so yea..what i was going to say is..ive just realised, that you dont know that you miss someone/something until you actually do feel it for real.like say ive been here for a while right..then people ask me do you miss home?do you miss your family? then i'd go yeahh of course i miss home(because im comparing my life here to what ive been used to for years and years and it takes time for you to feel attached to a new place in the same way that youre attached to ur real home) but now all of a sudden..im getting this feeling that i havent had before and i realise that all along, i didnt actually miss them in the past..all of a sudden i really appreciate all the family trips that we've had over the years..its almost become something like an 'annual tradition' that ive almost started to take them for granted.. but now on hindsight..those times were really nice..waking up early to have breakfast together..heck having every meal together..one of our most memorable meals was when we sat on the sidewalk of some random supermarket and each ate a tub of ben&jerry's that we bought from the supermarket for lunch...hehh..i think that was in vermont..or some other place but that doesnt matter..i cant remember why we did that..it was either because we couldn find anything else to eat or because vermont is the capital of ben&jerrys and so we just had to have ben&jerry's..or both maybe..we might have a picture of that at home..mm gotta remember to look for that one when i get back.. mmmm took me so long to realise that being able to spend time together with my folks and sis doing things that are mutually enjoyable is really something that i should really appreciate.. tomorrow's mother's day.. im gona call home..think im quite looking forward to that call.. Thing of the day!!!~picture!! me and amanda. =) from yesterdays mambo magic party at a bar called hush bar. shhhhhh. haha..

awrightyy!! before it reaaallyy becomes too damn outdated and i forget everything that happened.. im gonna do my GOLD COAST blogpost now!!!! never mind that i haven finished doing the collages yet..im going to do it now!!! i have never never ever been on any other trip that met with as much calamities as this one. every single day that we were there, there was something that either was not settled hence causing distress at the back of our minds, or something bad physically bad happened. it all started with the advance purchase of the theme park tickets from the university student advantage card thingy.. the deal was a 15% discount off each ticket and each ticket was about $60!!! the problem was that you needed to give them time to deliver the tickets to you and because i only found out about this discount about a week before and because of the easter weekend, we had some problem getting the tickets delivered to us at the right place at the right time. so in the end we decided to ask them to deliver it to the service apartment at GoldCoast about a week before we actually arrived there. so...after getting that done, i got slack and took it for granted that everything would go smoothly.then just before we our trip on thursday night, my friend mentioned that we should check with the apartment if they received our tickets and lo and behold, they said they didnt. sidetrack, our trip was from 17june(monday) to 23june(sunday) so im just going to refer to the days in terms of the days cos its going to be a lot easier to explain things.. so yes, it was thursday night and the apartment people didnt have our tickets..and we could not contact the theme park ticketing people because they were going to be closed from friday to weds. so i was kicking myself for not making sure thing things went right..and we were basically suspended on monday and tues not knowing whether our tickets got delivered and if they wernt and they were lost or what not whether we would lose our money cos it had already been paid for.. it's a good thing we had 3 non-theme park days planned into our itenary so thats what we did for the first 3 days..went non-theme park... Sunday night sleepover at sup's place so tt can share taxi in the morning..haha.. 7people,1 living room,2 movies (master & commander, and mona lisa smile..both shows tt ive been wanting to watch!!!!! heard tt master n commander is very good..but thought it was alrighttt lahh..mona lisa smile is better..haha), 500 <- hard card game like bridge but with funny rules that i learnt but cant remember anymore. MOnday........at 4am in the morning, Abigail (abby,abo,seow chia,abrigail) Alexander (alex,hua,arex aka sharkboy), Christina (memememememe aka lavagirl), JianWey(Panda,Jian,Jianny,Weywey,jianrey), Jonathan (jon,sum,shrum), Lindsey (rindsey) and Supa (Khachornwut,Sups, aka Sharksfin soup) stumble out of an hours worth of sleep to leave coldcold melbourne behind for greener warmer pastures...other highlights include reaching Surfers Paradise...SURFERS PARADISE!!!!! lunch...shopping!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!....and a nap at our apartment..hahah Center pic: Cavill Ave-the heart of Surfers Paradise..walked up and down this stretch of shops shops shops countless times over the week..its funny how they have pine trees in a tropical state.. center row left and bottm row center supposed to be representative of shopping..spot the pricetags...haha TUesDay!! was beach day!!!! us in full surfers paradise glory!! clockwise from top left: who else but our PANDA..and as we all know, a panda under the HOTHOT sun is like a fish out of water..*haha*..hence..nice beach and all..but panda covers himself with a towel!!!...n uses his bag to shade his face..slathers on the sunscreen... ME!!!see how happy i am =) im certainly in my element. SUMMERS!! goes glugglugglugglug... AREX!!! staring wistfully into the endless sea of sand and high rise buildings...or maybe he's jus bothered by his festering wound.. while the four of us were having fun in the sun, the other 3 sacrificed their fun in the sun time to buy the stuff that we needed to use to cook at night...thanks to them..we had a feast!!!!..but more on that later... went surfing in the afternoon..SURFING!!!!! my ultimate extreme sport fantasy..to be able to ride through 10foot barrels!! oh man that would be so kickass!.. sigh..but unfortunately..thats all it remains..a fantasy..far from my grasp.. but anyway, the surfing lesson was quite good..the instructor was gd..we were taught to body board first..and after trying that a few times he taught us to stand up.. and i managed to stand on the board... once!!!!! but that was like the first time..and after that i couldn do it properly anymore..damnit!!! so it was more like a fluke huh...i wanna surf somemore i wana surf somemore!!!was great fun nevertheless..im surf babe..yeahh!! hahaha after all that fun in the sun... we went back and cooked up a storm!!! we started cooking around 6ish maybe..and we only got to eat at..10??! and it all went from.. ..this to this.. ..in about half an hour!! hahaha but the whole thing itself was pretty fun..cooking and eating together n stuff.. the apartment had enough cooking stuff and so it was all pretty good..actually..our apartment actually was really nice. and we were quite lucky to get it cos the easter week is one of the peak seasons and many other apartments were booked out and all that.. then we found this place -Condor Apartments- and it had a good location-only about 5mins from Cavill Ave, had 3 bedroom apartment which is what we wanted and when split among 7people the cost was only about $37 per person per night..sounded a little bit too good to be true so i was wondering if we had been conned and if we would be in for a nasty surprise..but..we got a really good surprise..the place was really spacious, had cable tv..and even had an ocean view as promised! the living room had really nice couches..n n n yea ok just see for yourself.. haha i like this picture a lot..anyway.. i want one of those round chairs in my house next time!!!! have it look a lil bit more classy..nicer cushion cover..and they'll be the best chairs in the world! but it was not meant to be.. our enjoyment of our wonderful apartment was to be short lived.. weDneSdAY the most shocking thing to ever happen to me is going to happen today. but im not gonna write about it just yet.. THuRsdAy!!!! ..yea ive skipped weds temporarily...cos..thurs is when we finally went to a themepark and i just made a collage for it and im quite proud of my work so im gonna post it first =P the scariest ride of allll the theme parks was probably THE CLAW..and guess what.. it was the very first ride we went on!thats the one on the top left..it didnt really look that scary from where we were and so we dragged jianwey on.. (who btw had a strict no scary rides rule for himself)convincing him that it wouldn be too bad.. but it was bad..baaadddd haha.. ok lah not that bad..but it was the scariest cos like for rollercoasters and other rides the scary plunging part only happens once..but for this one it keeps going up and down so you have that damn scared omg im gonna die feeling quite a few times and you really can feel yourself falling each time and oh mann the repeated freak me out feeling just pushed the ride off the scary-but-fun point to the scary-and-not-fun point.. and yea none of the other rides were like that so this was the only scaryandnotfun ride for me.. they had a few other gd rides..wipeout(bottom middle) and the giant drop (middle right) i shall quote the dreamworld website "The Giant Drop is the tallest free-falling ride in the world according to the Guiness Book of World Records. But don't be lulled into a false sense of security by the relaxing journey to the top (the view is amazing if you can keep your eyes open long enough).Within seconds you're plummeting 120-metres at terminal speed. It's the closest thing to sky diving … well almost." hehh..yea the view up there was really quite nice and mmm the falling feeling was damn scary..but damn fun =D .. so all was going well right..but then of course the day wouldn be complete without a bad thing of the day.. see the group picture underneath the dreamworld sign.. yea that was the best group shot after like a dozen tries cos of the lighting and the positioning n we took sooo long to get a good shot( and its not even a complete group shot!!) that we were only done like an hour after the themepark closed..and we thought we missed the last bus back to surfers paradise!!! we were really like kicking outselves for it and there were some other people still waiting around so we hoped that another bus would come..and about an hour later it did! but it was a non-express one and the ride took about 2h to get back!!! it wasnt the length of the busride itself that was bad..it was cos we were all wet(cos the last ride we took was a water ride) and thus freezing, and hungry and i needed to pee.. anyway..we made it back eventually. tbc...

a thought just crossed my mind..maybe it would have been better if i didnt upped and left.. things would be so much easier and less complicated.wouldn miss the people back home so much, wouldn have to meet new people and go through the whole process of making friends, becoming good friends, then getting to the point where they become people you're reliant on..(cos face it, people are reliant on people..)and then only to have to eventually leave them and go through missing more friends..or maybe it wouldn have been any different even if i didnt leave. maybe it would have turned out exactly the same way as it has.the hard decision was the easy decision and the easy decision would have been the uncertain one..the one that didnt feel so right.. how do you know you're doing the right thing?you ask me, i ask you. in the end, things come to past and everything turns out ok again, even if it wasnt. ..you get past it and the past things that had no real long lasting consequence eventually looks trivial when it seemed the world back then.. or does it really?are you ever be fully ok again?things happen for a reason and everything that happens shapes the future you right.. i hate this feeling of uncertainty and the funny thing is that you cant stop thinking about the way you feel and that reminds you that youre feeling all weird and it just goes round and round and roud!!!arghhh im going crazy..