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So yesterday marked the beginning of a whole new era - The Second Semester of Second Year Pharmacy. I thought last semester was difficult. This semester might send me to my deathbed.

Pharmaceutics 201. Pharmacokinetics and Biopharmaceutics P201. Molecular and Chemical Basis of Therapeutics 201. Microbiology and Immunology P201.

Pfft.. how difficult is it to be a pharmacist? All I see them do is dispense stuff from scripts.


My supp exam is on next wednesday and thurday. Of all the subjects to fail, I have to fail the one with 2 papers! Grr..


Made strawberry pancakes today for brunch and gonna make curry ckn for dinner! This will be a pioneer attempt so I hope it turns out good!


The laptop I want is on ebay and the bidding is ending tomorrow at 3pm! Havetoneedtowantto!!


*Morphs into Nerd mode* back to benzoic acid and gang now....................

I can't believe it.. I failed Pharmaceutical Chemistry. *sob sob* I've never failed anything in my life! I don't remember if I ever failed add maths, but heck, if i don't remember, it can't be important, right?

Anyway, Mark convinced me to beg them for a supplementary paper (you experienced failee student, you) And, i didn't think it would work, but it did! I didn't even have to turn on the waterworks (not intentional, but pms+fail=absolutely emotional) Perhaps my course coordinator has a soft spot for Malaysians. His 'partner' is from Malacca! I don't like the way they use the word 'partner' here. Can't they just say 'girlfriend' or 'wife'. Big difference, you know! But the main thing is I get a second chance so I have to really slog.

Of course, I had to tell him how my mom is a chemistry lecturer but I did not inherit her chemistry genes. *sigh*

Oh yes. And then of course all bad things happen at once and I find out that someone stole my bike helmet @ uni. Why!!! You can buy a friggin 2nd hand helmet for like $5. Why take my smelly ol one! Now have to go buy another. New cause I don't one someone's contaminated helmet. You sweat when you ride too! *yuck*

Sofia and Ilona... gone.... *sniff*


'Family' dinner by Chef Mark. Me, Ilona, Mark, Joachim, Sofia


Sofia's last meal at Bombay Bicycle Club


Whispering Wall @ Barossa Valley. Sounds made on one end can be heard at the other! Freaky..


Walking the bridge from one end of the wall to the other. Back view of Sandy's mom and sis (sorry!)..


Me and Twin! Out with Sandy and family to the Barossa


FOOD and wine festival by the Sunday Mail. $7 entry and eat all you can (and i did..lol) . Too bad you can't see all the samples to be devoured....


Beautiful sunrise @ Mark's house


Illona and Olli. Two very blonde Finnish ppl..


And the lovely brunettes - Me and new housemate Martina!




Drumroll..........





THE dress. Still dunno when (if?) I'll ever wear it out.

Been sitting here in Learning Connection in uni doing next to nothing, and being paid $21 per hour for it. Life is good. My role as a Student Guide / Buddy is basically to smile and talk to new students, register them, answer any questions and not blog while on duty. Well.. there's nothing to do anyways. So far only 4 new students have come in today. *Yawn* Later on, will be conducting a workshop 'Managing Your Money'. Wonder why I got chosen for that. *hides dollar signs on eyes)

Tomorrow we're going up to the Adelaide Hills to the Wildlife Park. With cold and rainy weather (colder in the hills!) I'm glad I'm being paid.

I sound money minded, don't I.

And that brings me to......... I WANT A NEW LAPTOP. My current 'Great Quality' laptop is pretty crap. Of course, a company that calles itself Great Quality can't be all that great. It's like they're reassuring themselves.. hehe..

Bad: The screen wobbles
Worse: The screen goes blank when it wobbles although the computer is still on
Terrible!: The computer restartes itself when the screen wobbles a bit too much.

So many more things going wrong with this darn laptop. No sound, it hangs sometimes...

But when it behaves itself, it is quite a decent thing. Just gotta know it well and not wobble the screen. But......... I STILL WANT A NEW LAPTOP.

So. I have my eyes (and heart) set on the Compaq V2000. Been doing research on it as I always do and heck, it's all I need and more. Basically, its a thin-and-light computer with a nice screen and speakers and is customizable from the compaq website. Only around about USD1000 so it is really affordable for what it is.

Me wants the V2000 with ...

1.6 GHz
512 RAM
BrightView
DVD-RW (Ok, CD-RW is fine too)
B/G Wireless
12 Cell Battery (7 hours!)


Looks good? I wonder what the 1.5 is like in comparison to the 1.6. There's someone selling the same configs with the 1.5 for only USD650 and it's quite new. The big diff would be that the 1.5 is Centrino and the1.6 is Pentium M. I really want to get a 'perfect' laptop so I won't think of changing again anytime soon. Would be nice to actually play music on my comp as well.............. Decisions, decisions....


Other than that, been shopping with Sandy!! Bad bad... only planned to go out to buy a dress that was $20 down from $200 (pics later, at uni now) but ended up buying ermmm.. quite a lot of stuff. The good thing is that in the process of buying ermm.. a lot of stuff, I talked to the owner and was joking that after all my purchases, he should let me work for him. And he agreed! So I'm going to put my resume in and speak to him next week. Most of the clothes in that shop *ahem* look good on me, so haha.. I can advertise the clothes by wearing them!! =D Anyhow, I think I will enjoy working for him. He's nice and funny... good taste in clothes too!!!



Until I'm bored again, signing off!!

Well it seems I am on a blogging roll and wanna write about everything that's going on in my life. Although it is now 1.36 am and I want to get up early tomorrow morning and go to the gym to work off the past few days' worth of pigging out thanks to Sandy's visiting family. Food! Pah! All-you-can-eats are not good for the waistline. Neither is German food.

I like my new gym, Zest. For those in Adelaide who know what I am going to, I strongly discourage you from joining Renaissance Gym (the one above Toys R Us on Rundle Mall) Yes, it is cheap, but not really thaat cheap. And it's quite crap. Think damp floors FROM SWEAT and bathrooms that reek of chlorine, lousy showers and all. A better gym for all you lovely ladies would be Fitness First cause it a very neat, clean and fun gym that caters specifically for women, flabby thighs and all. It's just quite pricey. And then there's Zest. Not smack dab in the middle of the city, so that must be the reason you can get more bang for your buck. Loads of classes and enough equiptment to go around. Bargain enough and they might cancel your 'joining fee' and throw in a couple of personal training session.

So Sculpt tomorrow followed by Body Jam then a meeting with some guy who apparently has money making ideas for me (yes, I am highly skeptical and will let him know that) then to Rundle Mall to buy a dress that is $20 from $295!!!!! waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh... And work at night (that will pay for my dress after 1 hours' work)

Big plans. Need sleep. Will try.

I have lost interest in blogging. Sometimes I feel that no one is really interested in my blog, but I don't really care too much cause the original reason I set it up was for friends and family to know what I was up to and all that stuff, and I know that quite a number of people read my blog, and never leave any evidence *glares*

Nah.. I really can't be bothered. My blog is really my own. I just think my brain is suffering from post-exam-lack-of-stimulation-and-so-it-starts-to-imagine-things syndrome.

Meanwhile , I'm trying to keep myself occupied and again have multiple part-time jobs. Working in the uni as a Student Guide / Buddy along with the usual F & B casual job. It's a pretty cruise-y sorta job that requires not too much skill, other than plastering a smile on your face and ready to be all-out helpful / empathic with new students. Thursday, when i worked, was the first day the exchange students started coming in and anyone who knows exchange students is that first of all, they are seldom here to study. It's more like a semester-long party for them. Which is pretty cool cause the people in my course seem to only want to study. I like exchange students. Stuff 'I.U. (aka International Understanding) Day back in those Interact Club days. Heck, you've gotta admit it was just an excuse to put on a show that had very little to do with anything international. Uni life is where you are integrated with people from all over the world (though some people don't seem to want to take advantage of this great oppurtunity to open their eyes to the world and all it's richness. To expand their knowledge of cultures, habits and lifestlyles of people from a world so different to theirs.

Anyway. Sofia left on Wednesday. When I first met her, I thought she was a little boring and very strange. But that's the beauty of her. Her strangeness. She is so unique and genuine. The housemate who never gets flustered and whom I cannot get flustered at. The one who can sleep. And sleep. And sleep. And be late for a 2pm class. The one who pours water down her shirt to keep herself awake during lectures (what??!!). The one whom I share my chocolate needs during exam periods with. 3 bars in 3 days not bad ok.... My study buddy. Sofia whom I can talk to about anything. Boring? no way... she knows so much about so much! Sofia and her Mickey Mouse undies. My lightbulb changer. Oh I miss that girl so much. Sent her off at the bus station cause she had to go to Melbourne to fly home to Sweden. I think the amount of tears I cried was no match for the ache I felt in my heart. I really mean it when I say I don't think I can ever meet anyone quite like Sofia again. Have to remind myself I can't barge into her room and curl up on her bed to talk anymore. But even greater than that ache is a joy that my life is so rich that I cannot stop myself from crying when I have to say goodbye to someone I met as a total stranger and somehow managed to live with for a whole year. How horrible it would be if I couldn't bring myself to care that someone was leaving.

I'm glad she cried as well.

I miss you, Housemate. have a blast in Thailand and think of me freezing here while you lie on the beach in the warm sun. (And maybe I'll think of you during the Aussie summer while you're in cold, dark Sweden) *evil laugh*


Eat some herring for me and see you next Chinese New Year in warm and sunny (and humid) Msia!


Jag missa dig...