Finally, I got my confirmation for this programme! The lecturer said 70+++ students from under and post graduate are snatching for 24 places! huh.... Then, got ppl asked how they will select the 24ppl... She said based on our results ( I was like... sian... no chance already! ) and our Expression of Interest form that we filled in ( it was so long ago...i cant remember what i write also!).... then the chance I can get in was like 50-50....
Most important, I found a friend who also applied... nothing more important than having someone you actually know and travel together... I was so sad when the previous 2009 International Marketing Tour, I couldn't go with Anisa! She also very sad... hahahahahha....
But... that friend somehow got some problem with her unit allocation and she might not be able to go... aargh........ I am so scared now... I really hope she can sort it out and get to go...
Yeap... this tour will start from July 3rd to July 18th, which means the whole sem break I will be at china! I hope I will survive well... it's summer there.... HOT n SUNNY! haihz...
Some companies I will go... BOOST n GLORIA JEANS..... KPMG... LENOVO... SHANGHAI EXPO... etc....
We will be spending one night on the train... Beijing -> Shanghai... the tour guide described the train's dormitory and train's journey till like it's a very good and scary experience!
I really should bring a lot of motion sickness pill and sleeping pills...
I also not sure whether I am happy, excited for this trip or really scared coz I got ----- phobia since I came back from this year CNY trip...
Thursday Night... I am so boring! What can I do? 6pm and the sky already quite dark... sian.... anything I can do without using any money?
I dont wanna stay at home facing the laptop anymore! I will get cancer soon!
I am rotting! Connie said I will have mushrooms on my body soon!
I'm halfway with my individual assignment now... but the library is so so cold! I had already been concentrating for 1 hr +++ and it's productive... *phew... hope to finish it ASAP... and I'm so blur.... i thought i will have Communication presentation next week and I'm so stressed bout it coz I had 2 assignments in one day! I sms-ed my partner and asked when are we gonna discuss? He replied 'It's on week 9! not this week...'!!! I am so paiseh and relieved.... It's question 7, week 9 but i thought it's week 7, question 9....
actually, i wanted to add up to the previous canberra post... haha...
the very early morning day that we went to malaysia embassy. while waiting for bus in the interchange in city, i heard a sound behind me quite softly saying...
"담배 주세요! 돈 주세요!" which means "please give me cigarettes... please give me money..."
I didnt know he was actually talking to me... I was like talking to Liying at that time and I heard that... I was like... so funny... coz i understand what he said and i am so curious who is that person... I turned my head and saw an ang moh beggar behind me, talking to me...!!! I was like 'WHOAH!!!'.... i wanna run away as fast as possible! luckily the bus came just in time and I pulled Liying towards the bus... i told Liying I never see any beggars that will come out so early 8am... Liying said she didnt know there's beggars in canberra city....
Conclusion... I am so honored to meet beggar that can speak Korean so fluently and in Canberra city at 8am... haha...
That's all... gonna go back my assignment....
That's all...
THANK YOU LI YING VERY VERY MUCH for bringing me around Canberra (not around but to Malaysia Embassy and City and Parliament House)... haha... And letting me stay at your place and your bed... Thanks so much! *although i kept complaining and criticizing your pathetic room and lifestyle... haha... but Thank you worth 99% and 1% complain....
Let's start with the 1st day I arrived canberra... the airport... haha...erm erm... i nvr expect to see Liying after walking a few steps from the plane. But Liying kept saying the new airport is under construction... haha...
this is her Fenner Hall - which is her room... i dunno what to say... haha... like prison... coz i never see a room with study table and wash face basin next to each other... i cant stop laughing when i enter her room... haha... luckily there's no toilet bowl in the room otherwise, it is really a cell in the prison...
but it is really super convenient... i was sitting on the chair and I brushed my teeth and washed face while sitting...
my 1st meal cooked from LiYing... i am so honored! haha... everyone around me is so into cooking korean foods... mayz, liying, my brother and his housemates etc... but it's nice....
this is where the whole fenner hall's people cook and eat... liying said 4ppl share a stove or a compartment... i also cant stop laughing at this place... haha....
they have locks for all the fridges... there are few rows of fridges with locks... even though got locks, liying's juice still got stolen... she didnt drink it at all but i got drink a cup and it was lost... she was so so so so fuming angry! haha...
their 'metcard' super cheap... 10 X 2hrs only ard 10bucks... whereas melbourne is around 30bucks?
pathetic pancake parlour... normally pancake parlours in melbourne got very nice shop and designs but theirs... and canberra like to use places' names as their road names or building names...
this is their bus interchange and city... i dont need to explain more and you can see how different is it from melbourne....
while waiting for the buses...
after KM-ssss of walking, then we reached this area whereby all embassies are located around here...
finally reach malaysia embassy... we never expect this building to be malaysia de coz liying said she once past by and it was quite terrible.... but it's not!!!!!!!!!!!! we were so shock to see such a nice one...
when is the last time we see this familiar flag?
liying spotted this one... 5bucks for nasi lemak and char kuew tiow... haha... apparently, there were made by one of the staffs there... almost everyone who went there will buy... but we did not... we should have try...
embassy of France is one of the most modern and clean one...
liying likes this embassy very very much... she said very romantic... she wanna stay there... but i'm not interested at all... haha...
and here's the most most most GRAND one... super big and there are a few guards outside and AFP patrol cars park around the area....
after handling my applications, i need to wait till 3pm then only can collect. So we toured the parliament house which is a must go place when you are in canberra, the capital of Australia....
after a few hours walking and no toilets around.... needless to say, toilets in the parliament house very nice, clean, spacious... haha...
i was caught while stretching...
the greeneries are more than buildings... very comfortable...
waiting for bus again... when is the last time i took a bus?
see this pathetic liying... her body lotion caused her whole body to itch...
from 730am all the way to 1pm, walking and walking and a little bus rides.... we finally went to eat lunch and most important, i recommended her energy drink... haha... dunno got use or not... coz we always see that drink in TV... haha....
and finally, i got my passport!!!!!!!!!!!!!! whoooooooooooo.... but i wont show the inside coz the pic really ugly! liying said my previous and new photo in the passport seems like i had BOTOX!!!!!!!
this is their highway at 3pm... if it's in melbourne, the roads are filled with cars and lorries... but none in canberra... we crossed the highway like nobody business...
we crossed forests and rivers and many obstacles to go back to the main road... haha...
this is fenner hall... haha... liying stayed in level 1...
i already wanna go back melbourne badly after the 2nd day... haha...
anyway, thanks liying! come melbourne every holiday... be exposed to the real world... haha...
Here comes our Mid-sem break though it's not even middle of the semester yet... it's only week 5.... haha...
How am I gonna spend the one whole precious week? Nth much actually... coz a lot of assignments due right after the holiday... sad~
But I'm going Canberra to renew my passport... Only Canberra's Malaysia Embassy can do passport... And we need to make booking for it... if J.B can have the booking system, it will be so so good! You need to start queuing at 4am at the Immigration office and you might not have it done!!!
Besides that, I also can visit LiYing at Canberra... wooooo....
Of coz, this holiday's highlight... Gaga's concert on Friday!
And also, meeting up with Joyce and gangs coz she's leaving this week too... I am so sorry that I can't send you off coz i'm at canberra! dont be angry, k!!!
Will update my blog as frequent as possible since I got a new layout... haha...
Happy Holiday, people!!!
