utter randomness in the morning~

Halo semuaaaa~

I know this is a random picture I got from the internet. I know it's a cat. and I know it's screaming bacon. And to be honest, it has nothing to do with this post. :P hahahahahh..

But the expression kinda resembles me when I read through back by blogging years' posts.

After a couple of years of "service" di dunia blogging, today is my first time buat baca2 waaaaaaaaaaay back to the days when I first experience how thrilling blogging was :P

I can remember the adrenaline rush that got to me when I'm about to share weird stuff online (read: kekacauan2 yg telah terjadi ditengah kedamaian hidup gw). I can remember my sleepless nights gara2 keasikan nulis2 blog. I can also remember the jumpy feeling pas lagi ngetik yang disebabkan oleh excitement yang begitu besar (apaan coba? LOL). Last but not least, I can remember the frustration of not remembering the tiny details I wanna share with you guys. LOL. Eniwei, since inggris indo inggris indo bikin kaga ngeflow, gw lanjut indo aja d. Lebi ekspresif. hahahahh.. with a tad of english~

Turns out, ternyata blog gw mayan entertaining jg y? I wasn't in the best mood pas baca2 blog gw and my mood was then lifted up gara2 ini blog. Efeknya ok si.. tapiii...gitu diliat2, blog gw semakin kebelakang, semakin mellow! Otak gw langsung berputar keras dan membuat hati bertanya2 cemas..

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Apakahh.. gw semakin mellow dengan bertambahnya umur?

Ataukah ini kepribadian gw yang terkubur sedari dulu tapi baru terungkap belakangan gara2 kebanyakan pikiran ato stress yang berkepanjangan?

ataukah saya telah menjadi semakin dewasa sehingga kejadian2 bodoh sudah semakin berkurang?

Ataukah ini hanya perasaan saya semata? *ceileeee.. bahasa indonya mayan baku bo!!*

Well.. apapun sebabnya, gw yakin bukan karena yang ketiga si. hahahahh.. Kejadian2 dodol si ga perna abis. BUT, gw rada ragu buat publikasiin semuanya di inet. bahaya klo dibaca orang2 gereja trus fans blog gw makin banyak. lol. Maapkan kenarcisan sementara saya. :P

Putting the joke aside, gw somehow emang berasa makin mellow si. Tiba2 dunia warnanya makin monochrome, abu2 berasa jadi item, kuning jadi putih.. merah jadi abu2?

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idiom yang gw bikin ga nyambung =.=' lol. But eniwei, mungkin jg ini efek karena gw ketularan ama yang super mellow kli y? I can't really help it! For the last couple of years, gw deket ama orang yang super mellow. Jd in a way, gw tiba2 bisa ngeliat dunia yang begitu berwarna dari kacamata seorang mellow. Ibaratnya kek orang pake kacamata item disiang bolong deh. Doesn't matter how colorful the view is, all you see will be black and white (or monochrome) if you are wearing sunnies. Even a good pair of sunnies will still give you the same effect.

and in this case, I got free sunnies from this person. :P

I can only hope biar gw bisa buang kacamata itemnya ni. gawat..

ok, back to Indo, and let's lift up the mood. Tiba2 jadi mellow =.='

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Okaaaaaaaaaay!!! Let's move on to the next topic!!

The topic for today is: the stock market crash effect on people around.

Biasanya si efeknya ga ampe gimana2 banget ke gw.. tapi, hari ini, efeknya hampir kenapa2 ke gw.

So, the question is: what do I mean by saying klo efeknya hampir kenapa2 ke gw?

Lemme tell you about what happened today in Finance lecture. :P

Finance lecture di Usyd (di kelas gw) itu biasanya on-time. Bukan cuma ontime, tapi gurunya juga mayan rajin buat bagi2 kabar ttg share market buat at least 15 menit ampe 1 jem pertama lecture. Well.. not that I'm complaining, I'm happy with this since I don't really read the news. Even better, gurunya cakep.

Eniweiiiii... selama 9 minggu uni so far, ini guru ga perna telat.

not until today~

Pas gw dtg ke kelas, gw mayan amazed karena si guru cakep ga disitu (gw telat masuk 5 menit). After 5 mins waiting, itu guru dateng dengan wajah stress. Not only that, tp abis nyampe kelas, instead of langsung ngajar setelah komputernya siap, he actually stared blankly to the screen. well.. looking tired. Mebbe dia stress kali ya gara2 harga saham jatoh mayan dalem.

Even more surprising, instead of showing us graphs about stock market, he showed us pictures tentang pegunungan2 dari seluruh dunia. I actually tot he wanted to distract himself from the stock market situation at the moment. lol. Turned out, the pictures were photoshopped to reflect the stock market in different years. ~.~' dasar guru finance. pantesan bentuk gunungnya aneh2. hahahahh.. well.. gw ga surprise lagi d. -.-

dan seperti biasa.. Lecture berjalan for 1.5 hours, break bentar, trus lecture lagi.

Semua berjalan normal..

dan tiba2.. ruangan kelas dikejutkan oleh sebuah suara cempreng dari luar.

Betul sekali sodara2!!! Fire alarmnya bunyi!!! Awalnya cm 1 yang bunyi. But after a while, ada alarm laen lagi yang melolong manggil fire brigade.

sayangnya, alarm2 tersebut gagal... gagal buat bikin lecturer gw sadar akan adanya bahaya kebakaran dan berentiin lecture demi keselamatan bersama.

Si guru tiba2 makin ganteng by being indifferent to the fire alarms. LOL. Gw actually sempet mikir andai kata umpama jikalau ada gas bocor trus gedungnya meledak or anything *touch wood!!* what should I do? Should I send a text to my sis and parents to say I love them? Do I need to write a will?

awalnya gw mayan tenang si.. Sampe samar2 terdengar ada suara si mobil pemadam kebakaran dah mule ribut. dari samar, ampe kenceng.

tetappp.. guru gw ga bergeming. Lecture lanjut teruuuus!

Samar2, muncullah kecemasan yang dihasilkan dari buah pikir yang begitu pendek:

Lecturer gw ga suicidal kan???

Hopefully not. Tapi klopun iya, kami (read: finance studentsnya dia) jangan dibawa2222 @.@' Klo ampe gw yang kenapa2, tar keluarga khawatir. hahahahh.. Dan klo ampe kerumah bapa..

Well.. actually pulang kerumah Bapa will be very very nice.

But I'm not sure whether I've done what I need to do for God. We all have our calling in our lives, right? As for me, I'm still working on it. I wanna do my best to finish the race well so my Master will say "masuklah hambaku yang setia" ^^ I still wanna do more. Most of my friends are no believers, and I feel sorry for them :'( Wanna do more for God!!

Let's Jiayouuu!!!!!! :P

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Such a surprising diversion from the main topic.. but welllllllll... bear with it! >:] haha~

Pesan Moral?

1. Do not wear sunnies to see life! (ps: read between the lines. hehe)

2. Do more for God!!

Blogspot glitch?

Hmmm.. Just a quick question. I've been unable to change the font color in my recent post. I also couldn't change the font size once I've published the post. That is weird. Anyone facing the same problem? What should I do?

Been trying to change the color for several times, yet successfully failed in my attempt to change them. :P

Have a great day everyone!

Cheers! <- purple? No?

Pesan Moral: Urm.. ask questions when you're confused? hehe.. <- it's meant to be in 2 colors and in 2 different sizes.

Epic day at Uni~ the title says it all~!

Hi readers! :D

Before I start my post for today, I'd like to give a short comment about the durian picture on the left.

I simply couldn't believe that anyone would cut durians that way. it doesn't give the real experience of eating durian. It gotta be eaten whole!! I mean, welll.. you know what I meant. lol.

I know it's been quite a while since I last blogged here. To be honest, I actually tried to post something here around my graduation day as there were many many many interesting stuff to share, really. Too many that I've lost track about what happened in details. Awh Nooooooo!!!

But, what can I do? My weak-willed self failed to push myself to actually complete a post (and publish it online). ~.~' If you ask me how did it happened, the circle goes like this:

1. I started a post, stopped for a while till I forgot about the uncompleted post

2. After quite a while, I got into a realization that I have an unfinished post to complete

3. Tried to complete it (yet the time lag was too long that I had to literally rewrite everything to make it more relevant to my current situation)

4. Having not enough time to complete it (or lack of motivation to complete it), I postpone the post

5. After a while, I forgot the existence of this blog

6. and it goes back to number 2 . =.='

Yes I know it's really bad to have this habit. Hence, I'm doing my best to break it. That is, to STOP postponing stuff! lol. The problem is, heart is willing but the flesh is weak. lol. Anyways, here I am writing early in the morning when I'm supposedly to be sleeping. :P O well..

Alright, back to the main story. The post today is.. well.. about uni. Pretty straightforward from the title I guess. haha.. Been trying to keep things short and simple. Too bad, I'm really bad at this. Grah!!!

Right. Back to uni.

First of all, I'm back to uni!! Woohoooo! :D :D :D I never imagine myself doing a master degree in professional accounting, but here I am! Half way in my first semester, megap megap melalui badai uni. lol. Being back to uni gives me a mixed feeling.. like... Durian?

lol. why durian? o.O?

Coz It's hard to open, spiky (and yes, it hurts if you got pricked by it), smelly, yet heavenly sweet, with a bad smell that lingers in your breath for a couple of hours that sometimes you'll get sick of it. And, YES!! That's exactly what uni feels like. :P mwahahahahahahh..

It's hard to go through; and yes, the assignments and assessments gives you pain on your back and neck; In addition, the people you're working with for group assignments are not always supportive. The free loaders give you headache during weekdays --.--'. Even worse, it's smelly!! (read: wherever you go, your thoughts and anxiety about uni follows you EVERYWHERE) until you feel like running away from it. See the resemblance? hahahh..

Apart from the bad bits from uni, it's also sweet. The sweetness encompasses you to go through all of the bad bits to get to the core of the evil yet lovely durian. Uni: full with interesting people to know, full with interesting experiences, full with free time (urm.. when you're on holiday) and of course, more knowledge to absorb. :)

Some of the interesting experiences are really unforeseeable (or not), like what happened today.

It is week 9 of uni. Most students are panting in relief after the mid semester exams are over. Normal and outgoing people started to get nerdy, and the bird chirps *what??*

Anyway, my point is: the storm of the first half of the semester is almost over with mid semester break in front of our eyes.

We don't care about the assignments that await for us after the break. We just need a good doze of break from uni.. and apparently, I think the lecturers also feel the same way too! :S

Why is that so? Well, I got the idea from what happened today.

First thing after I woke up (after shower etc2), I tried to do the tutorial questions for Stats5001. The thing is, I don't understand the multiple regression analysis topic! Let alone the multiple regression analysis, I don't even fully understand the simple regression analysis =.=' what a bummer. However, since I don't understand it, I tried my best to do it.

How? by, of course, referring back to the lecture notes! Hupla!

So I flipped over the notes, jotted down the formulas etc etc and found myself even more confused. After a while, I gave up and didn't do any of the questions and go to uni. So I thought, I'll learn during the tutorial, then do some catch up work at home later on.

Once I got to uni, I went to the tutorial room, met my friend (N) and share my confusion about this regression topic. N is a smart and diligent student and she is totally the opposite of me. She LOVES calculation and hates theory and essays. She always do her tutorial questions regardless she understands the topic or not. Not today though. To my surprise, she also didn't do the tutorial as she doesn't understand it. So I thought, it's only N and I who's lost in this class.

So the tutor (K) started teaching for a while. N and I stared at him and listened carefully. The problem is, I do not understand a single thing he's trying to teach. Especially when He's using unfamiliar terms and formulas. I started to get panic. N too!

After the first question is done, a young chinese lady came into the class and talked to K while pointing to the question paper. We couldn't hear what she's saying.. till suddenly, K looked up to the class and asked "did any of you understand what I've been teaching today?"

and the class went silent.

"Have you learnt this topic before?"

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Yep! That's true. No one actually nodded. People either shook their heads or stare blankly to him. LOL. And I was like "that makes sense!! I couldn't make any sense whatever he's trying to teach today! That's right!! This topic is not taught yet =.='"

Turns out, the tutorial Q is the Q set for this week's lecture (which I'm about to have in 8 hours from now). The lecturer got it mixed up with a different file. lol. In the end, some people left the class, while the rest (including me) stayed and try to comprehend the logic of how to solve the questions. lol.

After a while, we were then told to do the last question by ourselves. Not knowing which formula to use or how to do it, N and I stared blankly to the paper while peeking to the previous answers. Maybe it'll enlighten our understanding.. or not.

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Well.. At least we tried. :P until...

N: "awh, is that nail polish?" she spoke to me

me: "ah, yeah.. Have just polished it a couple of days ago" I answered while showing my nails.

N: "huh? Ohh!!! nono.. I mean, K. His feet nails seem a bit blingy."

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and yes. It was silver/pinkish nail polish on his nails. MAN!!! that's disturbing. But yeah.. that's new.

After class, I walked out the room, going to the quad as my usual Wednesday routine. As I walk through the main walk, I could sense danger. People in purple, green and blue are giving out fliers.

Right. It's the campaign for student representative election.

I have to avoid these people.

Soooo, I walked in a snake route (go to the right, straight up, then to the left and right and back :P) in avoiding those ppl. Unfortunately, my "snaking skill" is not good enough as I got caught by a guy in purple. He kept telling me about the changes he's about to make to uni once he's elected (yeah people. He's one of the candidates!! What can go worse than this?? @.@')

So he followed me for a minute or two. As I thought I won't be able to escape, another guy in green approached us and gave me a flier. He seemed like about to do what this purple guy is doing to me. >.< Not wanting to hear anymore about these campaigns, I abruptly wave my right hand and reject their speech then thanked them. I was sooooo close to being brought away to the side of the road to listen to their comments about their groups. Phew! that was close!

Since I'm not a big fan of voting for uni reps, I see them as one of the durian's spikes. :P lol.

Anyhow, back to what I've said before. Uni life is hard to open, spikey (and yes it pricks), smelly, yet so sweet that you'd want more and more and MORE!! lol.

Pesan Moral:

Uni life is hard (to open), spikey (again, it pricks!!) and smelly, yet so schweeeet!! Enjoy it as you can!

PS: Durian opposers, this message applies for you too! hehehe~