Taking a big step forward...: February 2008

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Photos from O-wk

market day

in the great court

band from Emmaunel College

gathering in front of Vet Sch

reg. still gg on

on the way there

some mountains in the distance

flat lands w houses

mountains in the distance

trees

more trees

hills and trees

really rural part of Aus

bottle trees

on the way back

the moon that night

i love freebies

free penlight

free goodie bag

free notebook

the moon 1hr after i took the 1st shot

Time really passed by really fast. It's the 23rd already and O-week has ended, time to update some of the happenings.

2nd day of O-wk was pretty boring, was only looking forward to the free bbq lunch. Haha. We had a mass faculty(NRAVS) talk, telling us what to expect, the library, the student services blah blah blah, was really boring. Then after a 1hr break, we had the program advising for NRAVS students and most of the students r vet students lol. After that came the event I was most excited about, FREE LUNCH!!! But its hotdogs again and beef schitnzel, well who m i to complain when im getting free lunch wahhahah. Yeah so my sgp grp got ourselves food and sat down on the grass patch like banglas do. Back in sg only banglas would sit on any grass patch to have their meals, well i guess i have to fit in with the australian culture but i wouldnt do this in sg lol. Anyway, chatted with some other grps and as the weather was getting worse we decided to head back to our accomodation. So this is the end of the 2nd day of O-wk, pretty boring ya.

3rd day of O-wk, we had our talk by the new head of vet sch. He sounded like a very helpful n gd guy, hopefully everyone in my batch will graduate because of him lol. After this talk, our UQ Vet Students Assoc.(UQVSA) showed us an interesting slideshow, it was really funny. It showed the past events they had. They also invited some of the seniors to give a speech. Yeah n so most of us joined the UQVSA, i paid aud$55 for a yr to join that. We then proceeded to Market Day in the Great Court. Market Day is the day where clubs, societies, other organisations set up booths to tout us to buy things or join them. It was kinda boring, nothing interesting, in the end i only joined the International Singapore Club or something like that, I paid aud$5 for the whole yr which is not too bad, if they have events n stuff if not i would be asking for my 5bucks back lol.
After market day, we headed to a field where they were having another bbq! lol yes it was hotdogs again, so in these 3 days ive eaten hotdogs for lunch consecutively haha. After lunch they played some games, my friend wanted to go take a look arnd market day again as we didnt finish walking the whole thing. Yeah so i accompanied him, After an hr or so we headed back to our accomodation lol. Basically this market day wasnt as interesting as it was hyped up to be, disappointing.

3rd day of O-wk, we went to Gatton campus, 80km up north from my campus in St Lucia. It's gonna be a 1 and 1/2 hrs drive IF there was not traffic jam. -.-!!! Anyway in the morning we met at the grass patch in front of our Sch of Vet Sci to reg., got a free t-shirt and a name tag. After everybody changed n settled down, we boarded our bus to Gatton. The 1st half of the journey we could still see houses, shopping centres and buildings, the 2nd half, poof, it turns into a flat land, with farms, handful of houses and hills/mountains in the horizon at the sides of the road. We are in rural Australia. After 1 and 1/2 hr(lucky no jam), we reached Gatton Campus. It looks new and has more greenery than St Lucia. Played some ice-breaker games, had talks, played some team-building games, had talks again and played more games.It was fun and i really enjoyed myself that day, and i got quite tired at the end of it. But yeah the talks and games are helpful, informative, meaningful and FUN, really hope that our yr can be united and helpful to one another. We left Gatton at 1715 and reached St Lucia at 1845, again we were lucky there was no traffic jam. Went to the supermarket to get some food n came back to cook. My friends at International Hse had no more food left lol so they had to eat out. After their dinner they came to look for me, so we chatted for a while be4 they headed back to their college. End of 3rd day of O-wk.

The next few days had nothing on, so i basically just slacked at home lol. Okay time for some photos in the next entry. Take care to all who's reading this.

Monday, February 18, 2008

1st day @ Orientation (O-wk)

All right, i have no photos taken cause I'm lazy LOL. Anyway, woke up at 8, had breakfast, changed and went out at 0845. Shld have taken a photo of how i looked on the 1st day ya. Yeah so i made my way towards the UQ centre with my english hse mate, Chris. We were told that there r over 2000 international students from all over the world. There are, as expected, 200+ china students, 200+ US students, 200+ canadian students and 198 sgp students and students from other countries. China and america are like taking over the world la...placing their ppl all over the world, especially china chinese. Anyway the presentation got kinda boring, wasnt informative at all, looked arnd for fellow sgporeans and attractive ppl, but didnt spot any arnd me haha. Halfway thru, Chris gotta leave for another presentation so im left alone. The presentation ended at 1030.
Had morning tea, walked arnd aimlessly hoping ppl will come up to me but none did lol. Nearing the end of the tea break, this guy, Mark, came up to me saying he found me very familiar and asked if i was in the same sch as him. Turned out I was in the same BMTC Pegasus Company as him, and he was also taking veterinary science. What a coincidence! Guess i was lucky. Then he told me he know of another guy, Wenyu, who is taking vet sci lol. Yeah so currently i know of 2 guys taking the same course as me. Not as lonely anymore haha. We went to the next presentation together and it was another boring lecture, already know most of the stuff they were talking about so yeah my eyes were wandering arnd the lecture hall again lol. Finally the presentation ended and i accompanied Mark and his friend to get their ID cards. It was such a long queue when we got there. I'm lucky i came early n settled most of my stuff beforehand. I'm so smart! =x
Waited for abt 10 mins for them to get their cards then went to find Wenyu at this Christian Church Movement(CCM) booth. Yeah im gonna be a christian.....NOT! Mark n Wenyu signed up for this club and they were giving out free HOTDOGS!!! Although i didnt sign up, i got myself a free hotdog too, cheapo ya lol. Chatted with the people in the club so as not to look like a freeloader. They were really funny and interesting people haha. After that as the weather was getting worse, we decided to head back to our own accomodation. And that's it for the day. Was really glad to get to know ppl from the same country and doing the same course. Hope to meet more people tomorrow, having a faculty talk tomorrow you see so i will update u guys again tomorrow, till then take care, good night!

Sunday, February 17, 2008

BORED...

Hi world, as the title suggests, these few days had been really boring. Nothing much to update about and no photos taken. Just hoping for school to start soon so i can make new friends. Was stuck in my rm for days, nobody to go out with, what a loser right lol. Anyway, orientation starts on Mon, 18th Feb, its gonna be a busy wk for me. To friends reading this post, take care and update me on how ya doing in sg, really miss u guys. Good night.