我很傻

我好幼稚
我真的很幼稚、很幼稚很幼稚......
好恨这样的自己
做assignment
读书吧
就是想把它忘掉
逃避有用吗？
我很想面对
不管别人说什么
我都要能真心地微笑以对

秋

Taken last week, on my way back from Chem lab.

This was also taken last week, one of the buildings of UniSA.

Taken this morning, somewhere in the compound of UniSA.

I was so excited to see the leaves turning red, hahaha...

On my way back after Bio tut, the sky was awesome!!

Yellow leaves...

不知不觉秋天快告一段落了，我也在澳洲渡过了生平中的第一个秋天。一直都很期待看到绿叶转红、枫叶飘落满地的情景，更想吹吹秋天的冷风。现在天气开始转凉了，我却不由自主地想念起夏天的温暖。人嘛，总是到了失去后才懂得珍惜...但有些东西我还是自私地想永远握紧。哦，我还是执著的...^^

Done With Prac

I'm too happy, I'm too excited,
I MUST announce this to everyone:

I'm DONE with Bio prac for this sem!!!
Hahaha...

Just to tell you how miserable I was at the prac just now. Although I learned about Mendel's Law like two three years ago and it shouldn't be any problem for me to arrange the karyotype and write a couple of sentences as explanation for the results I observed, I just screwed up the whole prac. Didn't really have mood for the last prac. OMG!

I was so sleepy and yes, it was the first time I used three hours to finish a prac. >.<

Anyway, I'm so glad that it's over now!!! HAHAHA...

Food Fair

It is not my handwriting, I don't have ink and brush here. ^^ In fact, it was written by a girl named 何晴晴 from Zhulin Temple. *A very significant word when it comes with 随缘*

A very eventful Sunday I had this week - a visit to Zhulin Temple's fund raising food fair. There were soooo many food there, and most of them were those familiar food from Malaysia!!! CURRY MEE, curry puff, char koay kak, herbal soup noodles, ham chi peng, spring roll etc. etc. really made me lost control!! Also, there was tiramisu baked by pure Italian!!! It was yummy yummy and trust me, it was comparable to Secret's tiramisu!! Ahhh, it reminds me of Secret' cakes... Choc Indulgence, choc mud cake, oreo cheese, mango delight, choc banana, black forest, choc fudge, choc cheese, brownies, oops... I can't wait to go back to Malaysia!!! Haha...

Time flies, it's the end of the week again. Hah... Before I can welcome the arrival of Monday I seriously need to finish my Bio pre prac and Chem tut!!

Smiles

Had a really really busy + hectic week loaded with test, tutorials and things-for-me-to-waste-time. Can't help it though. I started to admire myself for I can always find some time to be wasted everyday. Doing nothing on Friday isn't something new anymore.

Woke up neither too early nor too late, just nice. Then, I tried to look through some tutorial questions while eating breakfast before sitting for the Chem test. The test, argh!! I promised myself that I won't mention anything about it anymore. Don't think I will do well anyway. Haha... After the test, it was time to reward myself AGAIN. I did some shopping yesterday, and today as well. The net gain of the two-days-shopping spree are two cardigans, two jumpers, one scarf, one jenny opaque tights and two beanies. After much consideration, I decided not to add them into this month's expenditure. I know that I'm not honest to myself!! Arghhh... I just couldn't resist the 30% off temptation in Deborah K! I guess it was the first time I allowed myself to shop till I drop in Adelaide.

I attended a mourning ceremony for the earthquake victims in Sichuan at Victoria Square in the evening. It was very very cold as I only wore a pair of slipper and my sweater wasn't thick enough to keep me warm. I learned my lesson: don't ever play with the weather and don't forget to wear thicker clothes at night. Back to the ceremony, the scene was sorrowful. The pain experienced by the family members of the victims is really undescribable. I can do nothing but to pray for them, hoping that the deceased will rest in peace while the survived can have a brighter tomorrow. Let bygones be bygones and cherish every moment we have now. Life is short, but we can make a difference by living every second with gratitude and try our best to do good for the people around us. =)

=)=) Let's hope for a better tomorrow for everyone... =)=)

Biology is NOT dead!

We often hear people talking about how tedious Biology is, and how difficult it is to memorise the terms and to understand the complex biological processes in our body. Therefore, it is not surprising that many people will assume Biology to be a "dead" science.

No doubt, Biology is hard when it comes to memorising facts for the sake of exams. But, Biology is FUN, particularly in tiny stuffs like altering a base to get a completely new protein! Protein synthesis is not just about transcription and translation but a lot more, a bigger picture of it. Well, I may be lagged in this but I just realised that a DNA molecule can act as template for synthesis of more than one type of protein and yeah, it amused me! Haha... In addition to that, the addition of an O atom to deoxyribose can significantly change the whole molecule's stability. Oops, this may be a little towards understanding of chemistry. Haha, how wonderful life is with the combination of Biology and Chemistry working in harmony. If ever they ain't, you should be worried. =P

Anyway, fun and exams are not correlating. I still get frustrated when I couldn't finish revising for the exams or when there are never-ending tutorials and assignments to be completed as the due dates are drawing near.

PS: I had done my essay!!! This is such a goooood news!!! Haha... (putting aside concern about the quality of work that I produced though...) Perhaps little refinement here and there is necessary before I can hand in my essay... ^^

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It had been a busy week,
and I know that
it's going to be another busy week ahead,
again, and again.
Sometimes I'm greedy,
I wish for a longer day;
a day with 24+1 hour
so that I can laugh out loud
sing with all of my heart
and do whatever I feel like doing.
I want to shop for some winter clothes
I wish for two things: time and cash

Completely indulged in the world of Muesli Bars,
of chocolate chips, strawberry and yoghurt...
Pancakes look tempting,
chocolates are irresistible,
cakes are my loved ones,
even breads can activate my salivary gland.
Food oh food...

Had been wondering round and round for an answer,
for confidence
for faith
for trust
for everything worthwhile.

I need to stop now,
I need to start doing my essay.
Go Go Go!!

Blog as I don't want to start writing the essay yet; the heavier the workload I have, the more I feel like engaging in wasting-time-activities.

Endless Tasks

After much anticipation, this week is finally over, giving an end to Biology test and COMM presentation. Being too excited to welcome the weekend, I wasted the whole night doing nothing.

Thankfully, I attended Friday Dharma Class at City East Campus and the topic discussed was "Showing Compassion and Loving Kindness with Wisdom". Somehow, the topic sounded interesting and meaningful. For people who attempt to start practising compassion, he should direct it firstly to himself. He should also avoid directing compassion to the one that he loves or he hates and members of the opposite sex. =) I suppose the reason for it needs no further explanation. Conclusively, it's a long way to practise compassion and loving kindness; starting from oneself, and then to people that you respect, your friends (by treating everyone as your good friend), your enemies (by treating them as your friend), mankind and eventually, all living organisms in this world.

Moving on, the concept behind practising compassion and loving kindness with wisdom is to be reasonable, ie to to take into consideration the situation and the person whom you direct your compassion and loving kindness to. However, each situation varies and there is no explicit right or wrong for each decision made.

I guess this is the only beneficial thing I did yesterday apart from attending lectures in the morning. Haha...

*Needs to prepare for Chem test next week*Time to start my essay*Math assignment*Must pronounce "three", "the" and all the "th-s" correctly*
Hopefully, I will be able to complete all these tasks. ~Cheers~

我不是温小花

不要因为我的手指稍微细长就暗自下决定说我是温小花，
不要因为我看起来像就说我是，
虽然我不怎么会煮饭烧菜，但至少基本的我都会...
我会很感激你的...

我...真的是无话可说！
太多太多事情闷在心里难以启齿，
真是感慨万分...
啊，别想了！！！

一大早起来突然有股力量和冲劲
想改变自己
不要再当从前的我
走出黑暗的影子
活出自己！

最后，我想趁今天献上我深深的祝福：母亲节快乐！
没办法给你最好的，也无法陪在你身边，但是在远远的角落，有一个人，她永远都不会忘记母爱的伟大。因为她知道，母亲终是把最好的留给她，就算全世界都反对，母亲还是会支持她...在最坏的时刻，母亲还是想办法把对她的伤害减低...当母亲知道她的心愿时，会想尽办法帮她实现...从小到大，母亲无微不至地照顾她，细心地教导她，陪她渡过生命中的每一天,陪她哭、陪她笑...
她也曾经叛逆过，曾经觉得母亲老了，有代沟，沟通不了了。多年后的今天，她想起时才发现原来是自己不够成熟...
她的母亲在别人眼中虽然是一个很平凡的人，但是在她心里，母亲永远都是最棒的！妈妈，我爱你...

Morialta Conservation Park

Despite having tests around the corner, I joined the hiking trip organised by MySA to Morialta Conservation Park. I have no idea why Morialta was choosen out of the 300 parks and reserves in South Australia; however, I am glad that it turned out to be an interesting experience for most of us.

Briefly, I visited a few spots at the park before having barbeque at an expansive grassland near the entrance to the park. There were three waterfalls in the park, namely First Falls, Second Falls and Third Falls. Simple right? Haha... Also, there was "Giant Cave", although I personally think that the cave wasn't giant. Nonetheless, we took the longest walking trails throught almost every part of the park and it took us approximately 4 hours! (It was written there that four hours were needed but I didn't really check the time.)

Too tired to proceed anymore. My eyes are closing and my brain is in sleeping mode now... Good night!

Three Dots

Dot one:
After whispering to herself asking why her contact lens case was so dirty, she wore the pair of lenses only to realise that it was her OLD pair of lenses. *Speechless*

Dot two:
Wondering which building was her COMM tutorial room, being lazy not to check earlier, she followed Chuen Lu and Zhi Hui to Playford building but in fact, the tutorial room was at Centenary building. *What?!*

Dot three:
She had her lunch at international student room at Playford building. Opposite her table was another group of students having lunch, one of them having a whole loaf of Woolies white bread while another one having a bottle of something. She thought they looked funny but she suppressed her laughter. At first, she assumed that the bottle was pasta spread which was to be used together with the loaf of bread, normal right? Hmm, okay... Suddenly, she saw one of them poured the bottle containing red liquid into his mouth. OMG!! The guy drank pasta spread!!! What was happening??? Then, another guy took the bottle and did the same thing. This time, she couldn't help but said in a loud-enough-to-be heard voice, "Hey, they drank pasta spread! Hahaha..." One of them stared at her. Guilty, she looked away. Later, she found out that it was not pasta spread but tomato juice. *Apalah, who is the fool this time???*

Give Me A Test

Give me a test
Put it on the web
Passing it around
Telling me some more.

Give me some notes
Put it on the web
Just wanna make me feel guilty
Like I never did.

Touch the keyboard
Click on the homepage
Direct me to you
Oh my Biology.

Come on babe
Know you love me much
Come on and give me moment of peace!

I Thought I Had Enough Sleep

BUT...
I felt sleepy during Biology tut just now.
I can hardly keep my eyes open during the tut.
I can't wait for that miserable one hour to pass.

NOW...
I have sore throat.
I have slight headache.
I just don't feel well...

What is going on???

I Don't Know Why, I'm Just Tired...

Lesson I learned today: Never ever arrange your timetable with Biology lab in the morning, and with classes coming after it.

Reason: Biology lab is tooo tiring...


As usual, the week started off with Biology lab on Monday morning. The very first shock our dearest demonstrator gave us was: Ehem, all prac workbooks have to be in this box (pointing at a box in his hand) at the end of this practical or you will get ZERO!! OMG!!! What?! Rewinding back to yesterday night: I was, I was... Well, practically copied everything from Campbell without actually understanding it!!! As a result, I didn't really know what I was writing... Arghh, no way!!! Luckily, this week's task wasn't hard, just a few slides to view under microscope and to prepare onion root tip to observe stages of mitosis. Eventually, I'm glad to say that I finished everything within the 3 hours given. Haha... BUT, I was so tired that I can hardly concentrate during Bioloy lecture (excuse huh...). =P

Refusing to give up my day so early, I went to the library to do some references for my essay. Quite satisfying after wasting some money photocopying. (So ironic...) Anyway, the weather just now was nice! Moderately cold wind does blow away half of my tiredness. Haha...

PS: Drosophila's chromosomes are gigantic!!! =)

有感而发

每件事情的发生和因果息息相关，就好像自己品尝自己所种的果实。（You reap what you sow）所以发生任何不愉快的事情时，无需太执着，应该以平常心去接受。开心或不开心只是个人的想法，因为“镜缘无好丑，好丑在於心”（蕅益大師）。把世上的一切事物都想象得美好，就不会有“丑”，心也自然辽阔了许多。反之，把每件事情都想得很糟糕，就好像把自己推入痛苦的深渊，自寻烦恼。

“我們要做到純淨純善，一定要知道從自己內心裡面做功夫。佛法稱為內學，時時刻刻照顧自己，不要去看別人，要消除內心裡面的矛盾，你的心才會得清淨。”（佛陀教育雜誌 Vol. 259）

当然，做任何事情，那颗“真心”最重要。坦诚相对就是以一颗坦然、诚实的心去对待每一个人和做每一件事情，不带一丝妄想、分別和执着。当你想到要帮助一个人的时候，脑海里第一个想的就是要帮助他，没有其他的念头，方是真心性德的流露。

我很清楚地明白，自己只是个普通人，距离纯净纯善还有好一大段的距离。面对每一件事情和人都会在心里自行判断喜欢与否，偶尔还是会有怨言和不高兴。但至少我们可以做到的是真心地去对待每一个人...

PS：别误会，我知道自己没那么好。=)