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Toiletspotting

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I had a supervisor meeting again this morning and since the shuttle
bus does not run outside the normal semester, I’ve been taking the
train to get here. Anyway, I just noticed today that the male toilets
on Platform 4 in Caulfield station are pretty ancient. They must hail
from the 1940s or something, it’s comparable to the one at the
Caulfield Racecourse. I usually take the train on Platform 2 coz I tend
to take late afternoon/evening classes so I’ve never really noticed
until today. Hmm…

Anyway, it seems that ticket prices goes up every time I come back…or maybe it’s only for Zone 2? Noticed a 10c increase.

Oh, how I wish I was back in Malaysia for the Chinese New Year
holidays. I had been looking forward to my final (don’t get much
holidays when you work) 4 month summer holiday before I graduate, but
it has been cut very short into a meagre 1 month holiday. Hmph…

Can the time go faster, please? I think I’ll feel much better once
Chinese New Year is over…although I suspect I won’t feel 100% until
semester properly starts again in March. It’ll only be 3 months until I
go back again then. Whee.

One from the collection

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Above is the Christmas tree at Wisma Sanyan that I took several
weeks before, but never posted up. It should have been taken down by
now though…at least I think it has. I’m feeling rather uninspired
today and went browsing thru my sadly sparse (due to an accidental culling
[sixthseal.com]) collection of Sibu photos for one which I haven’t
posted yet, since I haven’t taken much photos since I came over.
Hmm…I’m rambling. Anyway, I have a supervisor meeting at 8:15 am
again tomorrow, which means I’ll need to be up by 6 am for my daily
upon-waking-up bowel movement, so I’m heading to bed. Meanwhile, amuse
yourself with Trinity Methodist Church’s collection of MP3 sermons
[tmc.org.my]. Our family used to go to this church before we moved to
Sibu. Several of the (guest?) sermons are done by pastors which used to
be attached to Wesley Methodist Church in Sibu, like Rev. Lenita Tiong,
Khoo Ho Pin and Tie King Tai. For some reason, there has been no
recently added stuff though.

Poring Hot Springs

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Man, this picture sure brings back memories. This was taken by Daniel
[mailto:] during his Kota Kinabalu trip. He sent me some beautiful pics
of Sabah yesterday. I went there at the end of last year too and also
went to Poring Hot Springs (the one in the picture). It’s this place
that has hot tubs with sulfur water and also some (icy) cold natural
pools. I had fun on the water slide in the cold pool when I went there
last year too. Hmm…come to think of it, my own KK trip was exactly
one year ago and yet it seems like that happened ages ago. I
guess my time perspective is a bit skewed by the fact that I resent
being in Melbourne when everyone else is going to celebrate Chinese New
Year back home soon. How I wish the final 5 months of my stay in
Melbourne will pass quickly so I can be back home again. It’s strange
how I prefer it back home now when I used to prefer it overseas last
time. The home is where the heart is, I’ve been told. Hmm…something
to think about.

To default or not to default, that is the question…

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I just received my cell phone bill which comes to a staggering
A$462.26. It seems that I have two unpaid bills from the past few
months which added to a total of A$366.11 and a bill for A$89.74 for
the November – December period. I don’t remember having that much in
unpaid bills. I thought I only had a A$195 (my highest bill yet) unpaid
bill so I don’t know where the other A$171 comes from, coz I distinctly
remember paying a bill before I came back. I’m thinking about
er…’defaulting’ on this bill since I’m going to graduate in July
anyway and I have another unused pre-paid SIM card from a different
operator (Telstra) that I can use should push comes to shove.
Anyway, to anyone who has done this before (on an Australian service
provider), what are the legal ramifications? They don’t have my account
number or anything like that, so I figured the most they’ll be able to
do is send letters threatening legal action, which they won’t actually
enforce, due to the number of defaulters each month. What do you think?

Nevertheless, a change in phone habits needs to be cultivated. I used
to call my girlfriend using a calling card and a public phone, coz
public phones have flat rates for local calls. I don’t have a house
phone coz the halls phone charges per minute as well, so every night I
end up using my cell phone to call because I didn’t want to take
another bath after using the germ infested public phones.
Those local calls to the calling card access number using a cell phone
can quickly add up, thus the large bills I’ve been getting recently.
Hmm…to default or not to default?

The Pain!!!

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I’m so fucking stupid, so fucking stupid, so fucking stupid! I
copied my photos from the main directory over into a new directory, but
then changed my mind coz I wanted everything in a single directory so I
cancelled and shift-deleted the new directory. Well, guess what? It
seems I have fucking CUT instead of COPIED and now I’ve lost all my
pictures from the 7th of December to the 25th of December. That’s more
than 2 weeks worth of daily pictures, and most of them are very
memorable ones. To my poor memory, the photos ARE my memory and I just
lost more than 2 weeks worth of it. Well, thank you very much! Perfect
timing buddy, right after I stopped feeling sorry for myself for coming
back to Melbourne so early. If I wasn’t given a Y chromosome, I would
be bawling my eyes out right now. I really must check before deleting
next time. It really is a must, especially with photos. I’m so bummed.
It’s like that two weeks never happened. When will the hurting stop?

Fixed (fingers crossed)

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Okay, I reposted a couple of previous posts that went missing and
let’s hope that this is the last of the strange-ness resulting from my
host’s data center migration. *fingers crossed*

P/S – I know some of my posts, comments and email went into a black
hole recently, if there is anything important (or un-important for that
matter), please resend coz I didn’t get it. Thanks!

Today as told by The Grouch

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A rundown of things:

There was no countdown during New Year’s eve on the plane. No
special food. No nothing. I didn’t even know when we crossed into 2003.
Spending New Years Eve on a Malaysian Airlines plane = a bad idea.

I arrived here to find that the operations office is closed during
New Years day. Thus, I can’t get into my room coz the keys are issued
by the operations office. Luckily, the college head opened my door for
me so I could get into my room and didn’t have to spend the night at a
hotel.

There are a total of 3 lights I can see in Roberts Hall. It’s empty and it’s lonely.

Optus barred my cell phone because I didn’t pay the previous month’s
bill. How could I pay when I was in Malaysia? Should have set up a
direct debit.

I gave myself hernia and my testicles withdrawed in protest when I
moved my 12 luggages and my monitor single handedly from the common
room to my room.

I don’t have a pillow. The cleaners neglected to leave one so I had to use a pillow case stuffed with laundry.

Travelex Worldwide Rechargable Phonecard is fucking useless. I was
told it was 10c to call back to Malaysia. There was only two choices of
calling cards at the airport – a Say G’Day and this one. I could only
talk for 5 minutes to a cell phone on an A$10 card. I still had A$1.30
in the card but apparently “I’m sorry. That is not enough to make a
call to the number you’re dailing. Would you like to recharge via
credit card?” Well, fuck you. Should have gone with the Say G’Day.

The dining room is closed until the 16th of January so the only things I’m gonna eat today are:
An Anzac biscuit from the vending machine
A small pack of Mexicano Doritos from the vending machine
A tube of Fruit-tella that makes me feel sad to eat

Good things:

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At least someone cleaned my room while I was away.

I am online. Thank God for small miracles.

My apologies for the depressing post folks. It sucks to be back when everyone is still in Sibu.

Melbourne

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I have arrived in Melbourne, safely if not soundly. More about that
later. Gonna take a nap now. Dead tired. What happened to the three
previous posts? I think something happened to my host and the backup
was a day old. Gonna repost anyway when I wake. Later.

Boo fucking hoo and cry me a river of tears

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I’m blogging from one of the net access centers at the C terminal at
KLIA which costs RM 1 per minute. Yes, I’m going back to Melbourne
already. 🙁 Unfortunately, I get to spend my New Years Eve on a plane.
Anyway, I’m pretty bummed about all of this coz I had hoped for a 3 or
4 month holiday in Sibu. I knew it wasn’t possible though coz I still
have to do my Industrial Experience and I’m taking a summer course in 6
days. Oh well, too bad, coz I had wanted to spend more time in Sibu.
Now I can’t even spend Chinese New Year in Sibu! I had heaps of fun
during my one month break though. Anyway, I didn’t get to blog
yesterday because my hard disk decided to die on me so I couldn’t use
my computer at all. Have a happy new year everyone…

Wherever I May Roam…

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Something happened this afternoon at about 3 pm in Jalan Channel in
front of the market. I don’t know exactly what, but there were a lot of
gawkers staring as paramedics pushed someone into the ambulance. As I
stopped to take a photo, a swarm (swarm = about 10 policemen on 5
motorbikes) of policemen descended upon my illegally parked car and
made “move along now, nothing to see here” gestures so I had to leave.
It’s probably an accident, but if it’s anything more interesting, it
would make the papers tomorrow anyway.

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