I hate conflicts, and I absolutely hate discussing about nasty people coz I think it's a waste of my precious time. But I got to make an exception today because I thought it would act as a reminder for myself in dealing with these weird species of people later on.
My housemate A dragged me and SL that day to the admin office of our village to make a 'complaint' about my housemate B (in retrospect, I was stupid to allow myself being dragged, I should have just said "sorry I'm not interested in your endeavour"). Sigh....reason being? B has this habit of bringing friends home to stay overnight, and A is such a fussy person who always think of 'adhering to village rules' without any toleration for minor violation that doesn't hurt too much.
And what happened after that? A dragged us along and she did indeed launched a long-winded complaint which to me sounds like some schoolboy complaint about a mate punching him on his backside. It just sounded so self-righteous to me. I do agree that B wasn't right to continually have IPR (Illegal Permanent Resident) over but I guess a better way to do this is to tell B directly instead of making a big issue out of it, since B will find out about the complaint, eventually. And it does happen.
The resident assistants came over and we had a stupid house meeting (again). What he said indirectly implied that someone in the house DID make a complaint and I was not surprised after the meeting that B confronted all of us (poor ppl) to ask whether we ACTUALLY made a complaint. The plain foolishness of this whole drama is too intricated for anyone not being there to fully comprehend. I was thinking after the whole drama, " Is it necessary to create havoc out of the initial small problem?"
As expected, B and A quarrelled after the meeting and me and SL were just 'no eye see'. It definitely has zapped whatever little harmony and peace we once had in our house. I was pissed off and therefore decided to blog on this.
Stupid and sad tale about human. Why must we complicate life and make life miserable. It is miserable at times, right to the limit of my level of tolerance. Don't we make it worse by having unnecessary contentions.
Thursday 29 March 2007
Saturday 24 March 2007
Trying to adapt to uni life
It doesn't take me long to sense the primary difference between uni and SAM. I used to think that 2006 past very fast because of the SAM programme. "SAM is terrible!" But I just realise that it's all wrong. SAM is actually quite fun and easy. There wasn't too much independent reading to be made coz we were 'spoonfed' well. We were given more than enough info to manage in an exam. We were 'forced' to do essentially the same exercises until I felt so so sick of the same materials when revising for finals. Repetitive exercises do help in letting the knowledge 'sink in'.
In uni it's a totally different story. Not at any instance when i have too much time to kill. Life goes on with endless lectures and tutorials and work seems to pile up if we decide to take a one-day rest. Pitty me..... When I was writing this blog, the econ tute was lying flat on my desk waiting for me to complete it. Anyway, my econ presentation was over and that seemed to be reasonably well-done. (Comment from my tutor, i am not exactly self-praising).
This evening JPA officer visited our village. She promised to arrive at 11.30am but ended up coming at 1.00pm. Sigh, guess she was following the Msian time which is about 3 hours later. She brought food for us (this's perhaps one good thing about the visit, but waiting for nearly 3 hours is too high a price to pay). We ate satays, fried mee hoon etc. Msian food, finally.
I heard from MUV that they are gonna charge me 1300++ for January and February rent for which I won't get anything in return. I WASN't EVEN HERE THAT TIME!!! But this 's their policy, we can't do anything about that. Damned.
Need to go back to studies. Have a good day!!!
In uni it's a totally different story. Not at any instance when i have too much time to kill. Life goes on with endless lectures and tutorials and work seems to pile up if we decide to take a one-day rest. Pitty me..... When I was writing this blog, the econ tute was lying flat on my desk waiting for me to complete it. Anyway, my econ presentation was over and that seemed to be reasonably well-done. (Comment from my tutor, i am not exactly self-praising).
This evening JPA officer visited our village. She promised to arrive at 11.30am but ended up coming at 1.00pm. Sigh, guess she was following the Msian time which is about 3 hours later. She brought food for us (this's perhaps one good thing about the visit, but waiting for nearly 3 hours is too high a price to pay). We ate satays, fried mee hoon etc. Msian food, finally.
I heard from MUV that they are gonna charge me 1300++ for January and February rent for which I won't get anything in return. I WASN't EVEN HERE THAT TIME!!! But this 's their policy, we can't do anything about that. Damned.
Need to go back to studies. Have a good day!!!
Tuesday 20 March 2007
Life's getting hectic......
I have ACST test tomorrow and I'm online today?? I should be studying really hard shouldn't I? Yes I should, but just to take a break from all the stuff I am cramming into my head, I post a new blog here....
Well, the actuarial degree is tough, so said by many of my seniors. We have tests, assignments, presentation, quizes quite often, and the funny thing is that no one has officially grumbled about it, yet.
I got to read lecture notes after a lecture, to avoid feeling absolutely lost in the next lecture. And, oh yea, I sign up for gym and am currently an avid gym-goer. I seemed to have got addicted to running on the treadmill....can't stand without doing it for a day, I would feel so sorry for myself. You might call a a freak for this.
Sometimes I just sort of wondering what the future lies for me. No one could tell what's gonna happen tomorrow, next month, next year etc. It's kind of hard to predict even what's gonna happen tomorrow, or even the next minute. There had been several occasion in which I felt rather lost and confused. i was once unable to take out my earrings (sigh...I'm an amateur) , and was once feeling terribly scared coz I left my mobile phone in the Macquarie Recreation Centre. Hope I would be more careful ever since.
Some of my lecturers have rather inflated ego. I had once hurted a lecturer of mine in SAM unintentionally and that led to serious consequences (although later on she forgave me coz i was quite a good student in class and had apologised and vowed never to do it again). I am very careful with my words here. For example my econ lecturer doesn't want anyone to pick on mistakes in his lecture slides (unless he picks it up himself) !!!! OMG, such ego.
That's all for this time.
hugs
Well, the actuarial degree is tough, so said by many of my seniors. We have tests, assignments, presentation, quizes quite often, and the funny thing is that no one has officially grumbled about it, yet.
I got to read lecture notes after a lecture, to avoid feeling absolutely lost in the next lecture. And, oh yea, I sign up for gym and am currently an avid gym-goer. I seemed to have got addicted to running on the treadmill....can't stand without doing it for a day, I would feel so sorry for myself. You might call a a freak for this.
Sometimes I just sort of wondering what the future lies for me. No one could tell what's gonna happen tomorrow, next month, next year etc. It's kind of hard to predict even what's gonna happen tomorrow, or even the next minute. There had been several occasion in which I felt rather lost and confused. i was once unable to take out my earrings (sigh...I'm an amateur) , and was once feeling terribly scared coz I left my mobile phone in the Macquarie Recreation Centre. Hope I would be more careful ever since.
Some of my lecturers have rather inflated ego. I had once hurted a lecturer of mine in SAM unintentionally and that led to serious consequences (although later on she forgave me coz i was quite a good student in class and had apologised and vowed never to do it again). I am very careful with my words here. For example my econ lecturer doesn't want anyone to pick on mistakes in his lecture slides (unless he picks it up himself) !!!! OMG, such ego.
That's all for this time.
hugs
Saturday 17 March 2007
6 weird things about myself
1. I like to read, both academic (textbooks) and leisure books (e.g. magazines and daily papers). Can't deny that....
2. I love exercising EARLY in the morning when everyone is still asleep. (That's so fun, thinking of all the fat I burn)
3. I always want to be innocent, or at least appear to be, or pretend to be. On my first day at Macquarie University many senior students offer me help because of my look.
4. I hate gossiping, and absolutely hate seeing other ppl gossiping about someone, even tough I don't know that 'someone'. As the saying goes, small brains talk about ppl (gossips), medium brains talk about affairs (as in, current affairs), and the great brains talk about OPINION.
5. More often than not, I love free goodies.
6. Most importantly, I LOVE WRITING NONSENSE LIKE THE BLOG YOU ARE READING NOW !!!!!!
Cheers,
Xin Yin
2. I love exercising EARLY in the morning when everyone is still asleep. (That's so fun, thinking of all the fat I burn)
3. I always want to be innocent, or at least appear to be, or pretend to be. On my first day at Macquarie University many senior students offer me help because of my look.
4. I hate gossiping, and absolutely hate seeing other ppl gossiping about someone, even tough I don't know that 'someone'. As the saying goes, small brains talk about ppl (gossips), medium brains talk about affairs (as in, current affairs), and the great brains talk about OPINION.
5. More often than not, I love free goodies.
6. Most importantly, I LOVE WRITING NONSENSE LIKE THE BLOG YOU ARE READING NOW !!!!!!
Cheers,
Xin Yin
Friday 9 March 2007
An Actuarial Undergraduate's life
Give you an idea of how my life is like.....Take today as an example, coz I don't wanna scare you off my webpage (Sunday is easy compared to the rest of the week).
7.00 am....
Alarm rings. Have to force myself off the bed....the weather (even in summer) is damn cold......
Force myself to wash up, dress up, apply sunscreen and lift my beg...usually at this time I'll go uni. But for today, I went to my friends' house to gather before heading to Malaysian Hall in Sydney for an (unimportant, syiok sendiri) meeting by all the syiok sendiri Malaysians.
8.00am.....
During weekdays, I would be walking to uni at this time, by the way, with the company of ducks and birds. There are plentiful of wildlife in Macquarie University. Today (an exception), I was at a bus stop waiting for a bus to go to Sydney city.
On weekdays, my day starts when I get into the campus. I will be busy catching up with homework (we called it tutorial like most uni's), and read up lecture notes. Before begining, I would sometimes treat myself a mug of coffee or chocolate, and might read the morning paper.
For today I'm spared. But not in everyday from the hassle of rushing to lectures and tutorials. Sometimes got to run from one end to the other in 5 minutes, good exercise though.
I have joined gym in Macquarie, so I go there everyday to burn off some of the excessive fat on my body. It's been nice being in there, sweating like dunno what, while allowing myself to free from all the calculations, stats, econs, probabilities etc. than I need to figure out before the next lecture.
I cook for myself coz the foodcourt here seem to cater only to rich ppl. Or they might assume that all uni students MUST BE RICH (which is so so damn wrong)!!
Hence, the rest is routine... eat, bath, do homework again at night before going to sleep (with a jacket and socks to keep me warm).
Cheers,
Oxy
7.00 am....
Alarm rings. Have to force myself off the bed....the weather (even in summer) is damn cold......
Force myself to wash up, dress up, apply sunscreen and lift my beg...usually at this time I'll go uni. But for today, I went to my friends' house to gather before heading to Malaysian Hall in Sydney for an (unimportant, syiok sendiri) meeting by all the syiok sendiri Malaysians.
8.00am.....
During weekdays, I would be walking to uni at this time, by the way, with the company of ducks and birds. There are plentiful of wildlife in Macquarie University. Today (an exception), I was at a bus stop waiting for a bus to go to Sydney city.
On weekdays, my day starts when I get into the campus. I will be busy catching up with homework (we called it tutorial like most uni's), and read up lecture notes. Before begining, I would sometimes treat myself a mug of coffee or chocolate, and might read the morning paper.
For today I'm spared. But not in everyday from the hassle of rushing to lectures and tutorials. Sometimes got to run from one end to the other in 5 minutes, good exercise though.
I have joined gym in Macquarie, so I go there everyday to burn off some of the excessive fat on my body. It's been nice being in there, sweating like dunno what, while allowing myself to free from all the calculations, stats, econs, probabilities etc. than I need to figure out before the next lecture.
I cook for myself coz the foodcourt here seem to cater only to rich ppl. Or they might assume that all uni students MUST BE RICH (which is so so damn wrong)!!
Hence, the rest is routine... eat, bath, do homework again at night before going to sleep (with a jacket and socks to keep me warm).
Cheers,
Oxy
Thursday 1 March 2007
Class has started
Yea....my four-month holiday has come to an end. Lectures start on 26th Feb 2007, and we'll have ACST (intro for actuarial) even on orientation week. Oh, my brain has gone rusty abit... to the extent that i need some time to recall all the maths principals n formulae which I learned in SAM last year. ACST is kinda interesting, and I hope it wouldn't get too hard as time passes. I think the lecturer is quite fun...hehe. Guess his name is, if i'm not mistaken, Professor John Pollard. He claimed to not receive any royalty from the book he wrote which we use as tectbook...but the book still costs AUD$79. Crap. Nevertheless his lectures are quite good and less boring than what I expected earlier.
If you would ever let the idea of "uni life is always fun n relaxing" to cross your mind, I'm here to congratulate you that you are absolutely right, unless you are an actuarial student. The four subjects that we're currently taking are considered 'easy' by many of our seniors, which goes to show that the subsequent semesters would be even more "terrifying", as some people term it. I have met several local students(but they are asians) who expressed their most intense admiration when i told them that I'm a first year actuarial student. They said that it's the hardest course on earth and I should feel grateful of I actually survive the three-year-stint. Hey, it's supposed to be a course whereby out of a sudden, you would realise that a class with 50 students would be reduced to less than 15 in few months time. Scary, rite?
I've bought some of my textbooks although they are priced above what I would call, an affordable level. Statistics textbook costs me $65.50, whilst ACST costs me $79 as mentioned before, and Macroeconomics is likely to leech another $90 something from my pathetic monthly allowance. Haih...
Well, I guess that's about it for time being. Need to learn how to use Microsoft Excel before I find myself lost in next week's lecture. Have a nice day!!
If you would ever let the idea of "uni life is always fun n relaxing" to cross your mind, I'm here to congratulate you that you are absolutely right, unless you are an actuarial student. The four subjects that we're currently taking are considered 'easy' by many of our seniors, which goes to show that the subsequent semesters would be even more "terrifying", as some people term it. I have met several local students(but they are asians) who expressed their most intense admiration when i told them that I'm a first year actuarial student. They said that it's the hardest course on earth and I should feel grateful of I actually survive the three-year-stint. Hey, it's supposed to be a course whereby out of a sudden, you would realise that a class with 50 students would be reduced to less than 15 in few months time. Scary, rite?
I've bought some of my textbooks although they are priced above what I would call, an affordable level. Statistics textbook costs me $65.50, whilst ACST costs me $79 as mentioned before, and Macroeconomics is likely to leech another $90 something from my pathetic monthly allowance. Haih...
Well, I guess that's about it for time being. Need to learn how to use Microsoft Excel before I find myself lost in next week's lecture. Have a nice day!!
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