Wow. Everyday when I go to campus, I'll meet someone new. Every single day thus far into the week, I would meet someone new, either through friends or just randomly during a session. It's pretty cool and fun. But I can't say about making friends. Meeting someone new and making friends are totally different.

One thing about Uni is that, you get to meet a lot of acquaintances. Making friends? It depends.

Movie and O

Kel and I watched another movie this evening! Oh gosh. The cinema is just too near our place! AND the tickets aren't expensive! So we've become frequent visitors by now! :P

The movie we watched was BRÜNO. :/ Just 3 words about the movie- What The Hell?! Seriously, WTH.

Okay, so actor Sacha Cacha Baron (whatever... I can't remember and be bothered to find out his seemingly complicated name) was quite into his role as a queer man i.e. GAY, so much so that it was quite convincing. But the contents of the movie were cringe-worthy! OMG, even I personally think that the contents were too rated for me (well, it is in SG- R21). There were quite a few funny moments, but those cringe-worthy ones are way too overwhelming! ><

Attended the International Students Orientation seminar today. Saw lots of people like the people whom I met yesterday at the Arts Faculty session and Alison and her friends. During the seminar we found out that there were a little over 200 new students from SG! :O

SG is the THIRD country with the most student intake, with China being the 1st (about 400plus students) and USA being the 2nd (just a few more than SG- 200plus). Seriously, I feel like here you can bump into China Chinese more often than in SG. They are like freaking EVERYWHERE here in Aus and I can't stand them... Sorry but really. Oh man. =.="

We were so shocked when we knew there were over 200 new SG students here! Our country is like so freaking small and it has the third most intake of international students. woah woah woah. And this is just UQ alone. Imagine if you combine the numbers from other Unis in Aus. It's like half of our batch of students (or more) go overseas for further studies. This really show something... :/

Anyways, in regards to my major choosing, I've somewhat decided on International Relations. I'll be attending a seminar on this topic tomorrow, and at that time I'll find out more about this major. If I get turn off by the courses... I'll choose another major, perhaps? We'll see how it goes first.

Start of O Week

Today was the first day of Orientation Week! I attended the Enrolment Session for students in the Faculty of Arts. It started at 10am and when I reached the lecture theatre at 9.55am, it was already 95% filled with students! Most of them are angmohs! WOW. So different from poly, when everyone just starts to walk in 5 minutes after the actual time. :x

I thought I was early. :/

Anyways, the session was kind of crappy as it gave no extra information that we can’t find on the internet. Okay, I shouldn’t say crappy. It was too general for me. So, like some of the students who had more specific questions on certain majors, I went to the Faculty of Arts office for those “Drop-In Advicing Sessions” which allow us students to enquire more in-depth about our majors or courses.

I found out that for the Korean major (and the other language majors as well), the Introductory courses always start from sem 1 only. This means that I can only start Korean next semester! SUPER FREAKING BUMMER MAN! I also found out that I have to choose another major. For my BA, I have to complete two single majors to obtain my degree.

Problem is I have not really thought much about what other major I want to do. Okay, so I’ve briefly mind-pointed out Asian Studies and International Relations. But I never went and find out what those majors are about.

After much deliberation, I down sized my choices from this to Asian Studies, International Relations and Media Studies.

Most helpful choice for my future would be International Relations which is probably the most difficult out of the 3 choices. Seriously, just go Wiki and read about IR. Your head will burst. Or maybe it’s just me? :/

Anyways, I still have a couple of days to decide! >< If any of you thinks which major is good, feel free to suggest! I’m open because I need advice! Hmm.. maybe I should go to the drop-in session again.

Well, during the drop-in sessions today, I came to know of 4 other Singaporeans who are taking BA as well. Cool! 4 is more than what I expected of BA because Singaporeans are generally practical people who thinks Arts= no future. I expected lesser.. like 2 or 3 S’poreans. OH and the best part is there’s another S’porean girl who is taking Korean too! Hah! I’m not the only crazy one! :) No I’m not.

We hung out after that, went for lunch together and grocery shopping. Actually it’s quite nice to see S’poreans in a foreign land, especially when we are all still new to the place! :) Best part is we’re in the same Faculty!

Places of interest

The 6 days when my mum and sis were here with me, we went to many places of interest.

There are just too much to type so in summary, we went to…

• City area/Town- It’s just like SG’s Orchard Road, the main shopping district where it’s bustling with people. 3 of us, along with Kel (my housemate) and her parents, walked through the city and took the city cat. The city cat is a transport as common as buses and trains. It also has a stop at UQ! :)
• Chinatown- This place is said to be the least safest area to be at night. It’s so not cool that Chinatown is the least safest place. X( Anway, we all know what CT is- a place more for Asians, particularly Chinese. I’m more interested in the Korean grocery shop there. ;)
• South Bank- It’s where Griffith University (one of the Uni I applied for) is located at! We went there (together with Kel and her parents) for the market place which is said to take place only during the weekends. It sure was bustling with people and the place was beautifully decorated with plants and trees.
• Gold Coast- We went to GC along with Eileen and her family. There was this Malaysian guy whom Eileen met in UQ. He’s a member of the Malaysian Society in UQ so he offered to drive us to GC for sight-seeing and shopping. We didn’t go to any of the “Worlds” like Movie World or Dream World etc, because there were just too many things to do inside. But we did pass by those places. It looked hella fun! We just went shopping at this one place where there were many shops! I don’t know what’s the place called… didn’t bother to find out. :P After shopping, we went to Surfers’ Paradise. It’s one beautiful beach!
• Sunny Bank- After GC, we went to Sunny Bank for dinner. It’s like the 2nd Chinatown where there were lots of Asians hanging out there. Definitely lots of Asian restaurants as well. We ate dinner at a Chinese restaurant. Food wasn’t bad at all.

Now for pictures:

The City!

Queens Plaza building. Just a shopping centre. :)

The point of this picture is the bird in the centre. Can you spot it?

Anyways, here’s a better pic:

It’s called an Ibis and they can be found around places with lots of people, especially in open areas of restaurants. We were so amazed when we saw this in the city! O_O!

This is a casino! Looks grand, doesn’t it? Kel and her parents went there very often while they were here.

Here’s a ferry point (or stop or whatever. I’m not sure what’s the “stop” called yet) where people hop onto the city cat!

Here’s a city cat!

Boarding the city cat!

Inside the city cat. Very comfy! Spot Kel and her mum! :P

Out on the open platform. Very windy and cold! ><

Eee… act cute! LOL.

South Bank

That’s a building of Griffith University.

At the market place!

JELLY BEANS!

I love the sweet store! XD

Gold Coast and Surfers’ Paradise

This is the shopping area where we shopped! There were lots of shops and we couldn’t finish shopping within the time frame given!

Guess what T-shirt am I wearing? LOL!

DBSK’s Mirotic chin-dance! :P

My cappuccino!

Sista’s apple tea

Our pastas! The restaurant’s name is Fasta Pasta! Random but I like the name! ^^

Us! The friendly waitress offered to help us take a group photo! :)

Surfers’ Paradise!

The waves are GIGANTIC and so POWERFUL as compared to SG’s waves. No wonder it’s called Surfers’ Paradise. Surfers love waves like these.

That place is very windy and quite chilly. I don’t know how the ang mohs walk around half naked!

Cute dog which we played with for a while! The owner was really friendly and allowed us to play with it. :D

My dream car.

Excuse my retarded expression! LOL.

Who knew I would be cuddling a real Koala few days later? XD

Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary

Visited the Koala Sanctuary with Kel yesterday. This place is not only habited by Koalas, but also by Kangaroos, Wombats, Dingoes, barn animals, reptiles and those flying creatures such as birds and bats.

There isn’t any Koalas in SG so it was really cool and amazing to see a real life Koala so close and upfront for the first time! They are outrageously cute! They look like living soft toys hanging on the trees! They sleep on tree branches in a funny way- with their whole body curled up which seems like they could fall off the branch anytime.

This little guy is sleeping… ^^

Over at the sanctuary, there’s this cuddle area where people could cuddle the Koalas for free and pay a hefty amount of money for photo-taking! Well, I did both. ^^ It was expensive for the photo- 16aud but the photo came out nice, so yeah. Something to keep as a souvenir!

16aud for this. :x

After that, we went Kangaroo feeding! It was the most fun part of the entire trip. A packet of Kangaroo feed costs only 1aud. The kangaroos were all in this place called the Kangaroo Reserve and people could go in to feed them anytime (during the opening hours of the sanctuary of course). Best part? The kangaroos were all out in the open inside the reserve. No cages, no barriers. Just out in the open.

So you feed the kangaroos just like THAT.

A lot of them were just lazing around. But when they know you’ve got food, they’ll get up and approach you.

Kel approaching the sun-tanning roo.

Tongue sticking out! Cute!!

We bought like 3 packets of feed (or was it 4? can’t remember) to feed the Kangaroos because it was just so fun! Another amazing thing was, when we fed the roos, we would come across mummy roos with their joeys in their pouches!Some joeys were feeding from the pouch, some joeys just had their heads out of the pouch while some had their tails and legs out of the pouches. Too cool!

Besides, Kangaroo feeding, we also went to the Barn to feed those hungry barn animals!

The sheep are so damn clever! When they hear the ruffle of our paper bag of feed, they just kept following us! Even when we feed the chickens or ponies, they just kept coming! In desperation to keep the sheep away, we had to hide our bags of feed.

Ponies!! SO CUTE! Their short and stubby legs! XD

Look at that sheep… =.=”

Furry chickens!! How weird to see furry chickens!

Look at the bunch! The furry chickens look cute like that, but they are quite ugly when you see their faces beneath those thick fur.

Chickedies! Okay, there’s no such thing as chickedies. Just a name my sis and I came up with whenever we see chicks!

 

Other animals we saw- wombats, dingoes and etc.

Wombat

Ducks (or a similar kind of bird) standing on one leg.

Lorakeet (i think).

These were taken during the sheep dog show:

 
Sophie, the sheep dog, looked like she was obsessed with keeping the sheep in one place. She was so fierce and kept staring at the sheep eye to eye!

More cutie Koalas!

 

So fun! If any of you come visit me and interested to go, I’ll definitely take you there! It’s so easy to go there as well. There’re 2 straight buses from the shopping centre. :D